WHAT WAR ON WOMEN? G.O.P. Bills to Restrict Abortion
Republican leaders eager to reject criticism that they are waging a “war on women” should read the legislation that their members endorsed last week.
On Tuesday, all six G.O.P. members of the all-male Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice voted to approve a blatantly unconstitutional and dangerous bill that would ban all abortions performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with only a narrow exception to save a pregnant woman’s life. It contains no exception for rape or incest victims, to protect a woman whose health is endangered, or for cases of severe fetal anomalies.
All four Democrats on the committee voted against the measure, technically an expansion of a bill that Representative Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican, introduced last month to restrict reproductive health care services for women residing in Washington, D.C.