Update:
Question: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to the Consideration of S. 2311 )
Vote Number: 25
Vote Date: January 29, 2018, 05:50 PM
Required For Majority: 3/5
Vote Result: Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
Measure Number: S. 2311 (Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act )
Measure Title: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to protect pain-capable unborn children, and for other purposes.
Vote Counts:
YEAs 51
NAYs 46
Not Voting3
*Information compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
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January 30, 2018 - Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday released the following statement on the Senate bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy:
“The bill we’re voting on today is the latest attack in the decades-long Republican effort to eliminate a woman’s right to control her own body. This bill failed just two years ago. The fact that it’s being brought up again to appease Republicans’ political base is beyond the pale.
“Late-term abortions are often the result of tragic pregnancy complications including fatal fetal conditions and severe threats to a woman’s health. I’ve heard from women who were elated to be pregnant, only to discover a fatal fetal anomaly. Women facing these situations experience tremendous physical and emotional pain and must be able to make difficult decisions with their families and their doctors.
“The blanket ban in this bill makes no exception for a woman’s health. A woman would need to be at risk of death or irreversible harm to receive care under this bill. Any doctor who provided care to a woman before that point would be criminalized. This bears repeating: The bill denies health care to women until they are near death and criminalizes doctors.
“This is just another example of men making decisions about women’s health care based on a political ideology. It’s long past time that a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions and control her own destiny is respected. We will fight efforts to erode those rights at every turn.”
Source: Senator Dianne Feinstein