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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh dear they now want to tie abortions to the debt ceiling
These ReTHUG lunatics are fugging mad.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/26/house-republicans-abortion_n_3994796.html
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Some House Republicans argued, without success, to include a ban on late-term abortions in a bill to authorize a one-year increase of the debt ceiling just three weeks before the Treasury Department expects that the United States will not have enough money to fund its obligations, according to the Washington Post.
The House of Representatives already passed a ban in June, but the Democratic-controlled Senate did not take up the measure and the White House threatened to veto it.
Adding the provision was previously reported as under consideration in May. While other provisions considered by the GOP had at least a plausible relationship to the debt, a late-term abortion ban does nothing. In fact, the CBO estimated that such a ban will increase the debt.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Again.
I understand the urge to run back to the ol familiar "abortion". It's all they have to manipulate their fundy base.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Mopar151
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