{"id":33440,"date":"2021-09-19T13:51:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=33440"},"modified":"2021-09-19T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T20:51:33","slug":"democrats-are-set-to-launch-a-vicious-attack-on-texas-heartbeat-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/democrats-are-set-to-launch-a-vicious-attack-on-texas-heartbeat-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Are Set to Launch a Vicious Attack on Texas&#8217; &#8216;Heartbeat&#8217; Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Texas\u2019\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/scotthounsell\/2021\/09\/03\/no-the-texas-law-does-not-ban-abortions-or-even-a-majority-of-them-n437269\" target=\"_blank\">abortion law<\/a>\u00a0is about to get a fierce challenge from Democratic lawmakers, and the battle could begin as soon as Monday. After the \u2018heartbeat\u2019 law went into effect on September 1st, the left had a collective\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bonchie\/2021\/09\/01\/the-freak-out-begins-after-texas-abortion-law-goes-into-effect-n436450\" target=\"_blank\">meltdown<\/a>, trotting out all their usual tropes about how women won\u2019t be able to kill their babies. They even did their \u201c<em>Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d\u00a0<\/em>routine, dressing up in costumes from their favorite TV show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democrats became even more incensed when the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bonchie\/2021\/09\/02\/the-triggering-intensifies-after-supreme-court-refuses-to-block-texas-abortion-law-n436750\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0refused to take up the case. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) posted a tweet complaining about the court\u2019s decision:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The Supreme Court has not responded to our emergency request to block Texas\u2019 radical new 6-week abortion ban, SB8. The law now takes effect.<br><br>Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating.<\/p>&mdash; ACLU (@ACLU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACLU\/status\/1432935162304778242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has reportedly indicated she and her merry band of House Democrats will be mounting a legislative challenge to Texas\u2019 law, which prohibits abortions in situations when the baby\u2019s heartbeat can be heard.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ktrh.iheart.com\/content\/2021-09-16-pelosi-to-take-on-texas-fetal-heartbeat-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KTRH<\/a>&nbsp;reported that Pelosi indicated \u201cthe House will take action to counter a pro-life law recently passed in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, \u201cHouse members will vote on a reproductive rights bill when they reconvene in the nation\u2019s capital this month.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems the Democrats plan to once again introduce the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act of 2021. The bill, which has been introduced each year since 2013, would place restrictions on state legislation designed to decrease abortions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Center for Reproductive Rights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Women\u2019s Health Protection Act of 2021 creates a new legal protection for providers to provide abortion care, and their patients to receive care, free from medically unnecessary restrictions and bans on abortion that impede access to care. This new legal protection would safeguard access to abortion in every state against restrictions like six-week and 15-week bans, mandatory delay periods, biased counseling, and medically unnecessary ultrasounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill is being introduced today by lead sponsors Representatives Judy Chu (D-CA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Veronica Escobar (D-TX) and Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill is expected to easily pass in the House. But the true fight over the proposal will take place in the Senate. With Democrats narrowly controlling the Senate, there is a chance the legislation will pass. However, it is also worth noting that the Democrats do not possess enough of a majority to make this bill a slam dunk. Indeed, it seems likely that at least some Democrats might refuse to sign on to the proposed law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas\u2019\u00a0abortion law\u00a0is about to get a fierce challenge from Democratic lawmakers, and the battle could begin as soon as Monday. After the \u2018heartbeat\u2019 law went into effect on September 1st, the left had a collective\u00a0meltdown, trotting out all their usual tropes about how women won\u2019t be able to kill their babies. They even did their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":24944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[306],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nancy-e1632084684149.png?fit=700%2C462&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33441,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33440\/revisions\/33441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}