Tammy Baldwin (D-Madistan) bleats that "her" bill will make abortion legal countrywide.
For someone who is the proverbial lump-on-a-log, that's a lot!
But that's not all!!
...Senator Susan Collins signaled she is a “no” on this draft of the WHPA because it “doesn’t protect the right of a Catholic hospitals to not perform abortions.” Blumenthal responded that Collins was wrong, and claimed that there is nothing in the bill “that detracts in any way from existing protections based on conscience or religion.”
Blumenthal is either lying or ignorant of the text. The bill expressly preempts the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and any law that “impedes access to abortion services.” The latter would include conscience provisions like the Weldon Amendment, which prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from funding any federal, state, or local government that discriminates against hospitals and other institutions that refuse to provide abortions, and the Church Amendment, which provides that federal funds for health services not be contingent on the recipient’s willingness to perform abortions....
Since Tammy doesn't have a conscience, it's OK by her.
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