Sometimes a majority of our Senators do get something right. In this case, it was by flushing a radically nutso resolution glorifying the abortion industry by three of the most kook-wacko pro-abortionists in that deliberative body. Notice from the excerpt the typical leftist tactic of trying to piggyback something that is completely unacceptable and irrational onto the back of something that is not, and then claiming that you’re evil and radically out of the mainstream and against the more benign portion of the proposal if you don’t go for it.
The Senate yesterday blocked a resolution praising the “crucial services” of abortionists and condemning violence against them in the wake of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller’s murder last month.
The resolution, sponsored by Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), decried violence against “providers of health care services to women” and asserted, “there is a history of violence against providers of reproductive health care, as health care employees have suffered threats and hostility in order to provide crucial services to patients.”
The resolution failed to gather adequate support after Shaheen refused requests by some of her colleagues to strike the language celebrating the abortion industry. Shaheen expressed frustration at the resolution’s demise.
“I realize that the issue of reproductive choice is divisive and that there are many heartfelt feelings on both sides of the aisle,” said Shaheen in a press release. “However, I was hopeful that, regardless of our differences of opinion on this sensitive issue, the Senate could come together and pass a resolution that rejects the use of violence against women’s health care providers.
“It is a sad day when the elected leaders of the greatest Democracy on earth can’t agree to protect those exercising their constitutional rights.”
You mean like the right to keep and bear arms, Senator Shaheen?
