{"id":1471919,"date":"2022-05-11T15:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T19:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471919"},"modified":"2022-05-11T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T19:59:55","slug":"rep-steve-scalise-vows-to-take-up-born-alive-act-on-day-one-if-republicans-win-house-at-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-steve-scalise-vows-to-take-up-born-alive-act-on-day-one-if-republicans-win-house-at-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Steve Scalise Vows To Take Up \u2018Born-Alive Act\u2019 On Day One If Republicans Win House At Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Frep-steve-scalise-vows-to-take-up-born-alive-act-on-day-one-if-republicans-win-house-at-midterms%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=1471919&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Untitled-design-84.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said on Wednesday that the GOP will address the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on day one if the party wins control of the House during the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Scalise made the remark during a press conference in response to a question regarding Republican plans for pro-life legislation if <em>Roe v. Wade\u00a0<\/em>is overturned by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that the ruling comes out soon and I hope it\u2019s the ruling that was leaked. I\u2019m disappointed that there was a leak,\u201d Scalise <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/house\/3484558-scalise-says-republicans-will-take-up-born-alive-act-on-day-one-if-gop-wins-house-majority\/\">said<\/a> during the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a party who defends life and we would celebrate a ruling that allows elected leaders to defend life and debate in open public what those laws should be in every state and in Washington. Clearly, we will move day one if we get the majority on the Born-Alive Act,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, introduced in January, fell short of the 218 signatures needed to force a House vote.<\/p>\n<p>Scalise also blasted Democrats over the extreme legislation being considered in the Senate regarding abortion rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChuck Schumer right now is bringing a bill on the Senate floor today to make America in the category of China, North Korea, and Guinea. We would be in the territory of countries that allow abortion on demand as widespread as we\u2019ve seen it anywhere in the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveScalise?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SteveScalise<\/a>: &#8220;Chuck Schumer right now is bringing a bill on the Senate floor today to make America in the category of China, North Korea and Guinea. We would be in the territory of countries that allow abortion on demand as widespread as we&#8217;ve seen it anywhere in the world.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8C9dIOgKVj\">pic.twitter.com\/8C9dIOgKVj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1524472157459283968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All 50 Republican senators and West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin intend to vote in opposition to the bill titled the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act. The vote, likely 51 against and 49 in favor of the legislation, will fall far short of the 60-vote supermajority required by the Senate filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed to push for the Wednesday vote to force every senator to go on record regarding the abortion-supporting legislation ahead of the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome next week, Senate Republicans will have to answer for everything they\u2019ve done over the years to embolden the hard Right\u2019s hostility against a woman\u2019s choice,\u201d Schumer said in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/senate-abortion-bill-roe-v-wade-vote-schumer\/\">remarks<\/a>\u00a0on the Senate floor last week. \u201cThey will not be able to hide from the American people and cannot hide their role in bringing <i>Roe<\/i> to an end. The vote will tell, next week. America will be watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll week we\u2019ve been seeing Republicans try to duck, dodge and dip from their responsibility for bringing <em>Roe<\/em> to the brink of total repeal. That\u2019s what they\u2019ve been trying to do for decades,\u201d he added. \u201cNext week, the American people will see crystal clear that when given the chance to right this wrong, the Republican Party will either side with the extremists who want to ban abortion without exceptions, or side with women, with families and the vast majority of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/noem-defends-open-state-dems-accuse-us-of-embracing-death-as-they-peddle-abortion-on-demand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in August that Democrats in the Senate effectively went on record as pro-infanticide by voting down the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act proposed by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE). The bill would force doctors to treat born-alive infants from botched abortions with full medical care, instead of letting them die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said on Wednesday that the GOP will address the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on day one if the party wins control of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1482637,"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-1471919","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\/1471919","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}