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Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina, is once again introducing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks. Graham has sponsored this bill every year since 2013 only to have it defeated again and again in Congress.This year might be different, thanks to a conservative majority in the Supreme Court and several restrictive abortion measures being passed in Republican-controlled states across the country. But the bill would still need 60 votes to bypass a filibuster and pass the Senate vaso stanley , an extremely unlikely outcome given that Republicans control only 54 seats in the chamber. And it would also need to pass the House, which now has a substantial Democratic ma stanley cup website jority.Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, held a full committee hearing on the legislation before speaking to reporters on Tuesday. Operating under the premise that an unborn child feels pain at 20 weeks, or five months, the legislation only has exceptions for cases of rape or when the mother s life is in danger. I think science is on our side, Graham said in the press co stanley tumbler nference. He offered the fact that surgeons operating on unborn children use anesthesia as evidence that they feel pain. Graham said that Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who sometimes breaks rank with his party, may be willing to sign onto the bill.The legislation has never been able to clear the hurdle of invoking cloture, a procedural vote w Ebws Pence won t commit to supporting Trump if he s the nominee
THE PRESS AND THE DEMS....Bob Somerby is convinced that liberals will never get anywhere until they truly understand the media s loathing of Democrats. Not the conservative media s loathing of Democrats, but the mainstream media s loathing of Democrats. He s further convinced that the key to this is understanding the press cor stanley thermos ps War on Gore during the 1999-2000 campaign, a subject he discusses on pretty much a daily basis.As it happens, I disagree with him on the second point. Bloggers and columnists don t talk about any past events with any frequency. They talk about current events, with occasional nods to the past when it happens to illuminate some point they want to make. The Gore story from eight years ago isn t being ignored because Gore is a Democrat, it s being ignored because it s eight years old.Why bring this up Just in the mood, I guess, after writing my previous post. Bob has a post on the subject up today in which he takes on Josh Marshall, E.J. Dionne, Chris Matthews, and me in his usual, um, restrained fashion. So here s stanley vaso an open thread topic: go read Bob s piece a vaso stanley nd then discuss it in comments. Is his diagnosis right Half right How and why Talk to me. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8d8867a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8d8867a-8c88-