Pro-Life Republican Senator Blocks Democrat Bill to Protect Abortionists

U.S. Sen. James Lankford blocked pro-abortion Democrats on Thursday from passing a bill to shield abortionists from prosecution in pro-life states that protect unborn babies.

The Hill reports the Oklahoma Republican objected when Democrat lawmakers requested unanimous support of their pro-abortion bill, the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act.

“There’s a child in this conversation as well,” Lankford said on the Senate floor. “Does that child in the womb have the right to travel in their future? Do they get to live?”

Sponsored by U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, the legislation supposedly would ban pro-life states from punishing women for traveling to other states for abortions. However, pro-life laws do not punish women, and the pro-life movement clearly and repeatedly has said it opposes such punishments…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)