Now that the 41st annual March for Life is history, some in Congress will get to work on a couple of pro-life bills.
The question is, will they have a chance in the Democrat-controlled Senate?
The first bill deals with the Affordable Care Act. The Health Department has yet to provide a straight answer on whether people can determine whether their policy charges a premium to help finance abortions. The bill will require that each policy detail whether it does or not.
March for Life (2013)Hearings have been held several times on the issue so passage of the bill would help those participating in the exchanges.
Secondly, Congress will deal with a piece of legislation that would ban late-term abortions.
Susan Muskett of the National Right to Life Committee explains what the intent of the bill is.
"To provide nationwide protection for unborn children who are capable of feeling pain began at 20 weeks fetal age, which is the beginning of the sixth month of pregnancy," she tells OneNewsNow.
The bill would likely pass the Republican majority in the House but not the Democrat majority in the Senate.
Muskett explains: "The passage will depend on how strongly the American people convince their senators that this is something that they must vote to support, that they can no longer tolerate abortions being performed on these unborn children who are capable of feeling great pain during an abortion."
But it is an election year, and if a Senate vote takes place, voters will be aware of their senators' stance when they go to the polls in November.
Pro-lifers in Congress pressing on
As participants in the 2014 March for Life head home, they carry with them the knowledge that there will be efforts in Congress to protect life from its biological beginning.
Many thousands of marchers trekked through snow and braved single-digit wind chill factors for the annual march to the Supreme Court. They heard from major pro-life speakers, including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia).
"I believe that one day in the not too distant future our movement will be victorious because we will prevail in securing a culture of life in America," he stated. "The truth is there is an inalienable right to life – and this right extends to the unborn."
Cantor went on to say it's not a political but rather a moral truth, and the opposition "will ultimately fail."
Congressman Chris Smith (R-New Jersey) told the crowd pro-lifers in Congress have not been idle, irrespective of having a pro-abortion president.
"Ask your senators, ask your representative to support the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act sponsored by 165 House members and a full quarter of the United States Senate," said the New Jersey Republican. "Eric Cantor is scheduling that legislation for a vote next week."
In addition, Congress will be working on bills to ban late-term abortions and another one to require ObamaCare exchanges to list whether policies help finance abortions or do not.
Contact: Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
