Now
that the 41st annual March for Life is history, some in Congress will get to
work on a couple of pro-life bills
The
question is, will they have a chance in the Democrat-controlled Senate?
1. The
first bill deals with the Affordable Care Act. The Health Department has yet to
provide a straight answer on whether people can determine whether their policy
charges a premium to help finance abortions. The bill will require that each
policy detail whether it does or not.
Hearings have been held several times on the issue so passage of
the bill would help those participating in the exchanges.
2. Secondly,
Congress will deal with a piece of legislation that would ban late-term
abortions.
Susan
Muskett of the National Right to Life Committee explains what the intent of the
bill is.
"To
provide nationwide protection for unborn children who are capable of feeling
pain began at 20 weeks fetal age, which is the beginning of the sixth month of
pregnancy," she tells OneNewsNow.
The
bill would likely pass the Republican majority in the House but not the
Democrat majority in the Senate.
Muskett
explains: "The passage will depend on how strongly the American people
convince their senators that this is something that they must vote to support,
that they can no longer tolerate abortions being performed on these unborn
children who are capable of feeling great pain during an abortion."
But
it is an election year, and if a Senate vote takes place, voters will be aware
of their senators' stance when they go to the polls in November.
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