Democrats Seek Changes to Abortion Bill

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Confidants like grandparents or ministers who help pregnant teens should be protected from prosecution under a bill headed for Senate passage that would punish anyone who takes girls across state lines to end their pregnancies, Democrats said Tuesday.

``We should not criminalize the grandparents or clergy members to whom a teen in trouble might turn for help,'' said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who plans to introduce an amendment to protect such confidants from prosecution.

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Democrats also will propose additional exceptions for those who help pregnant teens get abortions in other states in cases of rape or incest.

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Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill, complained that the bill is the latest on a list of measures Republican leaders are bringing up for votes in an effort to appeal to the GOP's base of social conservatives. No one in his state has raised the practice of interstate abortions as a major source of concern, he said.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2233342

[BillZBubb]

1. Uh, Democrats, isn't it time for a filibuster?

Grow a pair! Forget these bullshit amendments. Kill the whole absurd idea.

[northzax]

2. what about a favorite teacher?

or neighbor? of local satan worshipper? criminalize it. I wanna see some prosecutor put grandma in jail.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I suppose that what the republicans prefer is for 14, 15, 16

year old girls to take a bus (if they can afford fare) and take a trip by themselves without an adult for protection and/or comfort to another state to get an abortion. This is going to make it even more dangerous for underage girls to get legal abortions and set up a potential Underground Railroad of sorts to smuggle pregnant girls across the border in a reconstituted Mann Act.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. No amendments. Vote to filibuster.

[noonwitch]

4. Why does this remind me so much of the Fugitive Slave Bill?

Isn't Congress overstepping their authority a bit? Shouldn't those laws be up to individual states?