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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: cavegal on June 09, 2010, 10:37:32 PM
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/09/democrats-seek-lift-ban-abortions-military-hospitals-abroad/
Democrats are looking to repeal a longtime ban of abortions performed at U.S. military hospitals overseas.
Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., introduced the repeal as an amendment to the defense authorization bill, which passed the Senate Armed Services Committee on a 15-12 vote.
The amendment still has a long way to go. It threatens policy put in place by congressional Republicans during the Clinton administration that restricted abortions at military hospitals to only cases of rape, incest or if the woman's life is threatened.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., says military facilities, including all hospitals, should be places of healing and should protect life.
"We will stand firm and I welcome the fight…if they want to bring it. I do believe that there will be an overwhelming vote to keep our military hospitals as nurturing centers not abortion mills," Smith said.
But supporters say this is about giving female service members or military families the right to choose while serving overseas and insist the patients would pay for the proce
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Let the slaughter begin!