Friends,

It’s refreshing to be able to share yet more good news with you on the legislative front! This victory was on the national level, where members of the Senate defeated a dangerous abortion-on-demand-without-limits bill. 

This bill was so far over the line of reason that even many pro-abortion-choice advocates were leery of it, and with good cause – it would have trashed any sort of meaningful safety regulation in abortion facilities (which are already notoriously unsafe and corrupt) and destroyed many protective pro-life laws along the way.

Despite a hard push from Schumer, the bad bill failed! This press release from our parent organization, the National Right to Life Committee, gives us the scoop.

For immediate release: Monday, February 28, 2022
For more information: Laura Echevarria, (202) 626-8825, mediarelations@nrlc.org

WASHINGTON — Today, Senate Democrats, led by Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) failed to invoke cloture on a bill that would have enshrined abortion in federal law and policies and override nearly all existing state laws.

The motion failed by a vote of 46-48. [Emphasis added]

“The abortion zealotry of the Democrat majority in the Senate was on full display today,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life (NRLC). “This far-reaching legislation would have run roughshod over the will of the American people and endangered the lives of women and their unborn babies.”

No Republicans supported the measure, and they were joined in their opposition by only one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.). This extremist legislation, which needed 60 votes to advance, failed to even garner a majority of U.S. Senators.

“The so-called ‘Women’s Health Protection Act’ should be called the no-limits-on-abortion-until-birth act,” said Tobias. “This legislation would have made sweeping changes, including expanding taxpayer funding of abortion, and eliminating requirements that a woman be given information about the development of her unborn child so she can make an informed decision.”

Continued Tobias, “This legislation shows just how rigid and uncompromising the Democratic Party has become on abortion.”

Among the protective laws that the bill would nullify:

“This legislation would quash nearly all existing protective state laws,” said Jennifer Popik, J.D., director of Federal Legislation for National Right to Life. “In addition, this legislation also would have prohibited states from adopting new protective laws in the future, even laws specifically upheld as constitutionally permissible by the U.S. Supreme Court.” 

Popik continued, “With this bill, elective abortion would have become the procedure that must always be facilitated – never delayed, never impeded to the slightest degree.”

Thankfully, this bad bill never got the chance to go into effect. Though the bill was originally passed through the House last year (on September 24, 2021, by a vote of 218 to 211 with all Republicans and one lone Democrat voting against it), its defeat in the Senate is a major victory.

The American people do not want unrestricted abortion; even many pro-abortion-choice people object to the no-holds-barred abortion which so Congressmen support. By becoming more extreme in their actions, these politicians are alienating not only pro-life citizens, but also many undecided citizens and even many pro-abortion-choice citizens. This failure on the abortion lobby’s part is not merely a victory for us, but also an indication of how the culture is changing in favor of a life-affirming ethic.

We look forward with eagerness to a future where every child, mother, and father is protected from the violence of abortion.

For Life,

Esther Ripplinger