From: 	 heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Sent: 	 Tuesday, October 14, 1997 1:09 AM
To: 	 Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup
Subject: House moves forward with ban on partial-birth abortion



From:	 "Dr. JOHN R. STROME" 
Subject: House moves forward with ban on partial-birth abortion
Cc:	 heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com

>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:17:16 -0500 (CDT)
>From: "Steven A. Ertelt" <ertelt@prolife.org>
>To: Steve Ertelt <ertelt@prolife.org>
>Subject: House moves forward with ban on partial-birth abortion
>
>House moves forward with ban on partial-birth abortion
>
>The U.S. House brought a ban on partial-birth abortions one step closer to
>reality today by adopting the amended Senate version of the ban. The
>Senate voted in May to accept the ban the House previously passed in March
>but added three minor amendments agreed to by the authors of the ban and
>the American Medical Association, which later endorsed the bill.
>
>Members voted 296-132 to pass the ban on partial-birth abortions, ten
>votes more than the necessary two-thirds majority needed to override a
>presidential veto. President Clinton has indicated he will veto the bill
>despite new information that contradicts his previous reasons for vetoing
>the ban. In voting, 217 Republicans and 79 Democrats voted in favor of the
>bill while 8 Republicans and 123 Democrats voted against it (Independent    
>Rep. Bernie Sanders voted no). The House had previously accepted the ban
>295-136.
>
>Supporters of the ban say three additional votes on the Senate side are
>necessary to override the expected presidential veto.
>
>Before considering the ban, members debated the "rule" which stipulates
>the parameters for debate. The proposed "rule" disallowed an amendment to
>allow partial-birth abortions for the specious "health" of the mother
>reason.
>
>In the summer of 1996, an organization called the Physicians' Ad Hoc
>Coalition for Truth (PHACT), a coalition of over 230 physicians, said: