Democrat lawmakers in the Maine House narrowly voted Thursday night to approve Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) radical late-term abortion bill, one that Planned Parenthood spent heavily in Mills’ and other Democrats’ 2022 campaigns to bring to fruition.
LD 1619, dubbed “An Act to Improve Maine’s Reproductive Privacy Laws,” passed by a vote of 74-72 in the state House, but the Senate, which had been expected to vote to approve the measure on Friday and send it to Mills’ desk for signature, adjourned without doing so.
Democrats in the House had to scramble to obtain the necessary votes to pass the highly controversial measure, according to the Portland Press Herald.
“The Senate did not take up L.D. 1619 tonight,” Christine Kirby, a spokesman for Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Allagash), said in a statement Friday night. “Instead, President Jackson and Senate Democrats will proudly pass L.D. 1619 when the Senate reconvenes during daylight hours.”
Rather than celebrate the House Democrats’ victory on pushing late-term abortion one step closer to becoming legal, on Friday morning Maine’s Democratic Party appeared to be more preoccupied with the lives of the state’s loons.https://t.co/SMFJ44BFB2 pic.twitter.com/Yl0OEy9DUD
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) June 25, 2023
The Herald report continued regarding the bill:
Jackson offered Senate Republicans a choice to debate the bill Friday or to wait until the Senate returns, probably in the middle of next week, Kirby said. Senate Republicans, who had admitted they didn’t have a chance of stopping the bill in their chamber, chose to wait until next week.
In a report on the state House’s approval of the bill, The Maine Wire noted the Democrats’ narrative that the bill will allow women who have been given a prenatal diagnosis of a rare fetal abnormality to abort their baby past the current 24-week limit has been refuted by Republicans, and some Democrats, who contend that abortions are already allowed in such cases with the current law.
The report continued that, while Mills will not face re-election after her second term, giving her full support to the late-term abortion bill “cost her immense political capital.”
“The governor’s strident reversal on a key campaign promise raised the questions about the sincerity of her campaign promises,” The Maine Wire observed. “But many Republicans weren’t surprised by the pivot, considering Planned Parenthood spent more than $830,000 backing Mills and other Democrats.”
In the medical animation video below, former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino, now a pro-life advocate, explains a late-term abortion procedure:
In May it was discovered that the OB/GYN who had been tapped by Mills to champion her radical bill was found to have authorized the 24-week abortion of a woman who later died in Albuquerque from complications due to the procedure.
Dr. Shannon Carr was named in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against her employer, Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO), the Maine Wire reported.
Governor Mills' radical abortion bill will allow medical "experts" to make judgment calls on if a late-term abortion will proceed.
Jamie Jeffries from @AbortionTrials joins us tonight at 8:30 PM to explain how those judgment calls can get women killed. pic.twitter.com/w80UReXMNn
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) May 8, 2023
Jamie Jeffries from Abortion Trials, a group that offers free legal services to women who have been injured during abortions, explained in May on Maine Wire TV how Mills’ bill will permit abortionists to help patients decide on having an abortion after the unborn baby is viable, or able to live outside his or her mother’s womb.
In commentary in April, Steve Robinson, editor-in-chief of The Maine Wire, wrote that Mills’ abortion bill is “built on a throne of lies,” beginning with her repeated statements during her re-election campaign that she would not pursue any changes to Maine’s current abortion laws, but then introduced her bill “less than two months after winning a second term.”
Now, Robinson said, Mills “has thrown the full weight of her office behind the effort to make Maine’s abortion laws the most radical in the United States.”
“The bill has been advertised as protecting ‘privacy,’” he also observed. “But there are no privacy provisions in the bill. The only thing that might be construed as a privacy provision is a requirement that names be withheld from a report that the bill itself calls for.”
“Saying this bill is about ‘privacy’ is detached from reality,” Robinson said. “But what would you expect from the people who consider ending the life of a viable pre-born human ‘reproductive care.’”
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Susan Berry, PhD is national education editor at The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
