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SJR 60 - Introduced - PDF
SJR60
191501-1
By Senators Hightower, Glover, Orr, Holley, Chambliss,
Shelnutt, Williams, Waggoner, Stutts, Scofield, Bussman,
Sanford, Blackwell, Pittman, Marsh and Reed
RFD:
First Read: 13-FEB-18
191501-1:n:02/12/2018:DSM/tj LSA2018-792
DISAPPROVING THE VOTE OF U.S. SENATOR DOUG JONES ON
THE PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT.
WHEREAS, The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection
Act (H.R. 36) which the U.S. Senate recently voted upon would
have provided nationwide protection from abortion for unborn
children who are capable of feeling pain, beginning at 20
weeks fetal age; and
WHEREAS, only three months ago, Democratic candidate
for Senate, Doug Jones, when attempting to persuade
conservative and moderate voters in Alabama to vote for him
stated "the law for decades has been that late-term procedures
are generally restricted except in the case of medical
necessity. That's what I support"; and
WHEREAS, it was later revealed that pro-abortion
individuals and political groups from out-of-state funneled
enormous amounts of financial and other support into Alabama
to influence the Doug Jones campaign; and
WHEREAS, even though The Pain-Capable Unborn Child
Protection Act would have passed because a majority of
Senators supported it, and President Trump said he would sign
it, pro abortion forces in the Senate used procedural tactics
to stop the vote, with Jones as a Senator from Alabama voting
to kill this important bill; and
WHEREAS, some Democratic Senators in the Senate
refused to take the extreme position to kill such a common
sense bill, and supported the passage of H.R. 36; and
WHEREAS, The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection
Act was fashioned from several states' bills, which passed by
overwhelming margins, including a similar bill in Alabama; and
WHEREAS, the abortions performed in the second half
of pregnancy usually involve painfully dismembering babies,
while also posing serious dangers to his or her mother; and
WHEREAS, Doug Jones is from one of the strongest
pro-life states, yet disregarded the clear wishes of the
people of Alabama, and instead joined his vote with the most
extreme pro-abortion Senators to allow this horrific practice;
and
WHEREAS, a vote to allow the brutal killing of an
unborn child at this stage is unmistakably revulsive to the
values of a so-called civilized and compassionate society, is
obviously violent to children, many of whom can survive
outside the womb, and devalues the value of every life in
America; and
WHEREAS, the United States is one of only seven
countries that allows abortions beyond 20-weeks; the other six
nations include: North Korea, China, Vietnam, Singapore,
Canada and the Netherlands; and
WHEREAS, opinion polls consistently show that an
overwhelming majority of Americans oppose late-term abortions
including a majority of those who self-identify as pro-choice;
now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH
HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That Doug Jones' vote to block
protection of countless thousands of lives from a terribly
painful death is unacceptable and this body strongly
disapproves his departure from the values of this state and
his vote on this important issue.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the members of this
body who are representative of the overwhelming majority of
the people of Alabama, call on Doug Jones to cast votes in the
future to protect innocent human life from conception until
natural death.