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WASHINGTON (AP) — Courting a third presidential veto
on the subject, the Republican-controlled House today approved
politically-charged legislation banning “partial birth" abortions.
The vote was 287-141. While the margin was big enough
to overturn a threatened veto by President Clinton, the Senate
vote on a companion bill last fall was not.
The vote came after several hours of well-worn debate.
Supporters claimed the measure would
ban a barbaric and unnecessary proce
dure while opponents contended it was a
vaguely worded stalking horse for an un
constitutional effort to ban all abortions.
“Everybody in this room knows this
is wrong. It is not legally or morally de
fensible," said Rep. Rick Hill, R-Mont.,
graphically describing a procedure in
which he said a fetus is partially deliv
ered, then its “brains are extracted with
the suction device."
“Consider our common humanity,” ap
pealed Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla., the
lead supporter of the measure.
Countered Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.: “Proponents of
this bill are not just chipping away at the right to choose, they
are taking a jackhammer to it.”
Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., accused the GOP of trying
to exploit a “wedge issue in this election year,” a reference to
the extent to which the measure causes many Democrats to part
company with organizations that support abortion rights.
Passage of the bill was never in doubt, but opponents
held out hope that support would be less than the two-thirds
majority needed to override a threatened veto. The House
has overridden two previous vetoes on the issue, but the
Senate has sustained Clinton’s rejection each time, and is
expected to do so again.
The Senate approved a similar bill last fall, and a compro
mise is expected before fall. The only difference between die two
bills is a Senate-passed provision — engineered by Democrats
— declaring that the high court’s Roe vs. Wade ruling in 1973
established “an important constitutional
right” and should not be overturned.
Sponsors say the measure is designed
to abolish a certain type of late-term pro
cedure in which a fetus is partially deliv
ered, then aborted.
Opponents counter that, as written, the
bill would apply far more broadly, thus un
dermining the Supreme Court ruling in
Roe vs. Wade in that granted women the
right to abortions.
Congress is voting on the measure at the
same time the Supreme Court is prepared to
hear arguments on the constitutionality of a
partial birth ban enacted in Nebraska.
While there is no direct connection between the court case
and the pending legislation, sponsors say the measure before
the House was crafted to meet objections of federal appeals
court judges who said the Nebraska statute failed to meet con
stitutional standards.
As drafted, the House bill seeks to ban abortions in w hich
a doctor “vaginally delivers some portion of an intact living fe
tus until the fetus is partially outside the body of the mother"
and “kills the fetus while the intact living fetus is partially out
side the bodv of the mother.”
"Everybody in this
room knows this
is wrong. It is not
legally or morally
defensible. ”
— Rep. Rick Hill
R-Mont.
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