House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said the House will vote on legislation to counteract Texas’ restrictive six-week abortion ban, which ‘escaped’ an injunction and was left to stand by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Texas Senate Bill 8, led by Republicans and signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in May, outlaws abortions when a heartbeat is detectable, which is about six weeks into a pregnancy. It will deny the procedure to about 85% of patients who seek it in the state.
The ban is enforced by members of the public who are able to sue anyone who provides or is involved in aiding and performing abortions barred by SB8, including anyone who drives a patient to the procedure.
Late Wednesday, the Supreme Court voted against an emergency petition from abortion providers and advocates to block the law, which Pelosi called a “catastrophe.”
“SB8 unleashes one of the most disturbing, unprecedented and far-reaching assaults on healthcare providers — and on anyone who helps a woman, in any way, access an abortion — by creating a vigilante bounty system that will have a chilling effect on the provision of any reproductive health care services,” Pelosi said in a statement Thursday.
“This provision is a cynical, backdoor attempt by partisan lawmakers to evade the Constitution and the law to destroy not only a woman’s right to healthcare but potentially any right or protection that partisan lawmakers target.”
Pelosi criticized the high court for upholding the law without a briefing, hearing oral arguments or providing a full, signed opinion. She said the purpose of the restrictive Texas law is to “destroy” Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case that protects women’s right to choose to have an abortion.
“This ban necessitates codifying Roe vs. Wade,” Pelosi said. “Upon our return, the House will bring up congresswoman Judy Chu’s Women’s Health Protection Act to enshrine into law reproductive health care for all women across America.
Chu’s legislation would guarantee women access to abortions and protect doctors who provide them, codifying the Roe vs. Wade ruling into law.
It’s unclear if the evenly split Senate would have the 60 votes necessary to pass the bill.
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Amendment 10
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Too bad pelosi’s mom didn’t believe in abortion as much as she does. One less idiot in the world
I’ve felt the same way about abortion. Planned Parenthood should make a poster with pictures of several well known dummycrats on it with a statement saying “Do you want more like these people in the world?”
Pro-abortion supporters will never accept that the baby in the womb is NOT a woman’s body. Once the woman’s egg unites with the man’s sperm the result is another human being with an entirely different DNA, a combination of the woman’s DNA and the man’s DNA, therefore not part of the woman’s body. Putting a chicken in an oven to bake does not make the chicken a part of the oven. If the millions of babies that have been murdered had not been aborted, we would have had millions of additional human beings contributing tax dollars to the government, since at least 1993, that would have made social security and Medicare funds last years longer.
SHE doesn’ believe in the constitution.
Furthermore, any female in the Great State of Texas that does not agree with our new abortion law……can leave. We do not want you here.
That goes doubly for ALL BUSINESS that disagrees with protecting babies lives!
Speakig about Nancy Pelosi, ” Somewhere, A Village is Missing their Village Idiot! “
Exactly. The US Congress doesn’t have the authority to over-ride the Texas ban.
The Dems sure want another Civil War don’t they?
SINCE when has that ever stopped the Commucrats, from doing what ever the hell they want!
These are the same baby killers who go ballistic about puppy mills, polar bear extinction, spotted owls and hundreds of other feel good causes but think nothing of crushing a baby’s skull.
“Part 1—SB8 unleashes one of the most disturbing, unprecedented and far-reaching assaults on healthcare providers — and on anyone who helps a woman, in any way, access an abortion — by creating a vigilante bounty system that will have a chilling effect on the provision of any reproductive health care services,” Pelosi said in a statement Thursday.
“This provision is a cynical, backdoor attempt by partisan lawmakers to evade the Constitution and the law to destroy not only a woman’s right to healthcare but potentially any right or protection that partisan lawmakers target.”
Well, Mrs Devout Catholic—“reproductive healthcare”—another nice clinical term. Could you tell me what in the Constitution is being evaded? I mean, you should know since you and your Congressional colleagues are pros at evading the Constitution. Maybe reproductive education would be a better approach, Nancy—heck, we may even want to throw in a little God and the sanctity of Life understanding—being Catholic, you would see the merit in that, right?
She is a SATANIST, through and through.
Gotta get those baby sacrifices for Moloch.
Nancy Pelosi must have read ” Rules For Radicals, ” by Saul Alinski because she seems to put rules numbers 4and 5 and # 12 into play to Irritatate the conservatives . Nancy Pelosi apparently is a , ” Sundays only, Catholic and for the rest of the Week shes a World-Wise, Politican with the only Rule to guide her, Whatever it takes to Win guiding her conduct..
Part 2—How do you explain away these little nuisance babies, Nancy, who create all of these problems for the women who carry them? Are they merely reproductive matter? Until what point? Do you think it doesn’t become human until some vague point somewhere later in the process? What else are humans going to produce besides other humans? Are you familiar with Genesis where it states that all Life reproduces after its own kind? Being Catholic doesn’t necessarily equate to being Godly, does it, Mrs Pelosi?
Your staunch Liberal politics and all the power it may wield will not be enough to atone for the right to murder which you are lobbying for. You need to have a conversation with God, Dear Lady. You are trying to serve two Masters—and you are trying to delegitimize the One to whom you should be most faithful.
Yep Nancy, a woman’s healthcare is murdering an innocent baby in the womb. Oh, Nancy, you are everything a “good Catholic” should be, aren’t you Nancy? Nancy, you are an accessory to the murder of the innocent in the womb.
Poor Nancy – over 60,000,000 “rare” abortions just aren’t enough for her.
She and Joe practice a rather ghoulish version of Catholicism.
They’re lucky that their parents didn’t also believe in infanticide.
Nancy and Biden are both liars in claiming to be Catholic – they both are the furthest things from Catholic out there and both will be spending eternity in Hell. I hope they stop to consider this when they have trouble sleeping at night – Their lives on earth could be 100 years if they are lucky but eternity is forever – millions of years – they need to stop and think about this and pray that God will open their eyes before they die. Once they take their last breath, it’s too late. Their fate is sealed and all their lives and corruption and voting for abortion will be what sends them to Hell on judgement day when they stand before Jesus and he reminds them of this and why he is sending them to Hell.
PITY THey, and every other parent of a Demon-rat politician, DIDN’T abort these cretins!
well now I BELIEVE that ‘separation of powers’ was put in place FOR YOU NANCY. SCOTUS has spoken. Shut your mouth.
Her PIE HOLE !
pelosi needs to learn she is not more powerful then Almighty God and the killing of innocent children of God will be hers to answer for on judgement day. By the way pelosi God does not except excuses.
When the president , Donald Trump, democrat , Nancy Pelosi brought up Religion when She was questioned about her wishing for Donald Trump When shewas ansering a question about her wishing the Republicaian President well, Nancy Pelosi responded, ” I Pray For The President Every Day. ” Nancy Pelosi must have thought when she was praying for Donald Trump, ” I Wish him good Luck, the Same good Luck He wishes for Me, but Double . ” Author unknown.
is it to late for a late term abort of her?
Mommy and Daddy should have had her Aborted and We The People wouldn’t have to put Up with Her **** !
Well, based on how little they care about OLD FOLK who die off, i’d say NO< its not too late.
wow–this is amazing-nancy decides to get things for herself both ways–as a racist she gets to eliminate POC by allowing abortions –
since it is probably a system that sees a large number of black adherents-but also lets a large number of white women
avail them selves of abortions and will surely become democrats for letting them have the convenience of not having to be
sexually responsible-but it does surprise me that she is willing to give up such large numbers of the welfare group-usually the core rank and file of the democrat party-but I guess if she loses her appeal -she does regain the welfare state -like I said it is win /win for the nasty wench of DC
I wonder how many welfare people get abortions, because the more babies you have the bigger the welfare check.
Ugly old cement face female dog shows her phony Catholic faith again, which in reality is NO faith.
Every time Pelosi opens her mouth she proves she is dumber then the day before.
She’s (Peloski) is always talking about something she doesn’t know anything about. She (Peloski) is has Dementia as Beijing Joey is.
Don’t you mean “PROVE she is evilier than before!”
Among the most disgusting statements in history are:
Go ahead and kill Jesus.
Let’s gas as many Jews as possible.
I have decided to have my baby dismembered in my womb.
Why are the Democrats so bent on killing babies?
Because their god, MOLOCK DEMANDS IT!
She can claim to be whatever she wants to but we can know who she is by her actions. She is clearly NOT a ‘devout Catholic’. You cannot claim to be in communion with the Church that states that abortion is an intrinsic evil and still support it. She has no right presenting herself for Eucharist.
As for Biden….he has now stated that ‘life doesn’t begin at conception’. What school is his medical degree from?
Once the left started deciding that you can be whatever you decide to be or call yourself they started down a slippery path to total relativism.
Plus, SINCE THEY ARE MANDATING vaccines for folks, even WITH 2 of 3 vaccine makers, still having their products being NOT FULLY Approved. HOW can they on one hand say “YOUR body, your choice”, WHILE ON THE other hand saying “YOU MUST put what we tell you, into your body, whethr you WANT IT or not, or Else!”
The ‘ All Caring democrat Marxist Party of America, Nancy Pelosi says to others not like her and other democrat elite, ” Let them Eat Cake! “
“This ban necessitates codifying Roe vs. Wade,” Pelosi said.
Oh please, PLEASE try to enact this law! When a majority in every Republican district and most Democrat districts demands their congresscritter oppose this bill, au revoir Roe v. Wade!
UGLY on a stick!
I don’t understand why Democrats are so set on killing. I am grateful that I am adopted and my mother didn’t abort me!
They must abort, and it seems they must, as it is in their nature it seems to rid themselves of their problems and mistakes by aborting or killing. They do this too with their assisted killing of sick or older people and believe it or not, I once read a thread from Liberal Women about how since the child just isn’t quite a thinking human at 5 years of age or younger, that they should be allowed to abort them up to 5 years old. And they were serious!
I personally feel, since they must, then no gov funding to any of the clinics and forbid political donations from any of these clinics to any political anything. Right now Dems give PPH our tax payer money, and then PPH gives back in large political Dem donations. If PPH has that kind of money, then they do not need mine. We already pay for birth control, I suggest these girls and boys get themselves responsible and take the control. There is such a thing known as the morning after pill…take it!
And on the flip side of their argument of my body, my choice, ….once you go out and get pregnant, it is no longer just you in that body. Why do you think people are charged with murder when they have an accident that kills an unborn?