{"id":1465642,"date":"2022-05-05T17:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465642"},"modified":"2022-05-05T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:59:54","slug":"democrats-quietly-scrub-abortion-bill-language-saying-men-can-get-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-quietly-scrub-abortion-bill-language-saying-men-can-get-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Quietly Scrub Abortion Bill Language Saying Men Can Get Pregnant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-quietly-scrub-abortion-bill-language-saying-men-can-get-pregnant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465642&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The latest version of the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which would effectively make abortion a statutory right, scrubbed references to transgender and nonbinary people\u2019s pregnancies as well as language related to \u201creproductive justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/bills\/s1975\/BILLS-117s1975is.xml\">versions<\/a> of the bill used language tying race and transgenderism to the issue of abortion in its non-binding \u201cFindings\u201d section. Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the bill\u2019s sponsor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/04\/senate-abortion-vote-manchin-collins-problems-00030148?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=0000014e-f0f6-dd93-ad7f-f8f7ed7e0001&#038;nlid=630318\">told<\/a> Politico the language had been removed from the bill due to objections from some Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The newest version removed referenced to white supremacy and gender oppression as well as notes clarifying that its provisions applied to anyone with the \u201ccapacity for pregnancy\u201d including \u201ctransgender men, non-binary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others,\u201d according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReproductive Justice seeks to address restrictions on reproductive health, including abortion, that perpetuate systems of oppression, lack of bodily autonomy, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism,\u201d a previous version of the bill said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re standing together because this is perhaps the greatest threat to Roe v Wade we\u2019ve seen in a generation.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AbortionIsEssential?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AbortionIsEssential<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And this Senate will vote on the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act to protect abortion rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V4gJrh9GXP\">pic.twitter.com\/V4gJrh9GXP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1466207748366999552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis violent legacy has manifested in policies including enslavement, rape, and experimentation on Black women; forced sterilizations; medical experimentation on low-income women\u2019s reproductive systems; and the forcible removal of Indigenous children,\u201d it said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-overturn-roe-v-wade-dobbs-jackson-womens-health-abortion\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Gravest, Most Unforgivable Sin\u2019: SCOTUS Leak Decried By Court Watchers)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/03\/judicial-insurrection-ron-desantis-dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-roe-v-wade\/\">leaked<\/a> Supreme Court draft opinion revealing the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade sparked renewed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/02\/democrats-abortion-roe-v-wade-dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders\/\">interest<\/a> this week in the WHPA, which <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6152473\/abortion-roe-v-wade-democrats\/\">failed<\/a> in the Senate in February. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate would vote on the bill next week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/04\/senate-abortion-vote-manchin-collins-problems-00030148?\">according<\/a> to Politico. The legislation is cosponsored by 47 Senate Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal characterized the new language as \u201cvery marginal changes that simply meet some of the issues that have been raised by senators who want to make it more consensus driven,\u201d according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>The WHPA would strike down every state law banning abortion in the first six months of pregnancy and would require states to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/05\/democrats-legalize-third-trimester-abortions\/\">allow abortions<\/a> in the last trimester, after the point at which a child could survive outside the womb, if a health care worker says pregnancy could hurt the mother\u2019s mental or physical health.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version of the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which would effectively make abortion a statutory right, scrubbed references to transgender and nonbinary people\u2019s pregnancies as well as language<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":1481793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}