Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion in Daschle’s Grasp     10/3/2002
Will he allow the Senate to vote?
By Sara Weltz

Sen. Daschle says the Senate's too busy to consider the slaughter of children.

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Kansas) hosted a press conference yesterday urging Senate clearance of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (H.R. 4965). Speakers, including five senators, agreed that Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is preventing the bill from reaching the Senate for a vote.

A Concerned Women for America (CWA) spokeswoman read a statement by Sandy Rios, President. “Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden together could not be perpetrating practices any worse than what is taking place right here, right now on American soil,” she said. She added that Sen. Daschle must stop showing “concern for pro-abortion forces that support him, instead of the thousands of living, breathing, helpless babies who are even as we speak, being slaughtered.”

When the House of Representatives passed the bill on July 24 and President Bush stated his support for it, the Senate had plenty of reason for speedy action. Only Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota), who has voted against partial-birth abortion twice before, has the power to bring the bill to the floor. But he hasn’t.

According to Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director of the National Right to Life Committee, Sen. Daschle claims that the “Senate is too busy to consider the matter.”

Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio, addressed this by proclaiming, “This is human life! The longer we wait, the more babies are being killed. Of all things to be of chief concern— certainly human life should be the most important!”

Senator Wayne Allard (R-Colorado) added that the majority of Americans are behind the ban. Sen. Allard said, “Partial-birth abortion is an inhumane procedure… more than 50% of the U.S. stands against it, 31 states have worked to ban it, and the President firmly supports the ban. We need to move forward to ban partial-birth abortion!”

Senators Tim Hutchinson (R-Arkansas) and Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), Rep. John Thune (R-South Dakota), along with the Family Research Council joined in the plea for Sen. Daschle to act.

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