Proposed Modification to Family Planning Amendments Act of 2004

[Jake]

Scrap the whole bill.  It is utter trash proposed by a pro-abortionist and approved by the most radically left wing senate we've had.  I call on my senators to scrap this entire bill.

[Jake]

Take away c and d if you must, but leave a and b.

We are setting a very dangerous precedent if we repeal the whole thing. Nothing will get done if every time the Senate switches hands, all that gets done is a repeal of bills passed by the past Senate.

Because all the real Congress does is repeal bills.  I think B should be left, but A should go if we are to pass Supersoulty's Bill.  It isn't an anti-abortion thing, it is just that I don't think money should go overseas, when we need it at home.

[Jake]

Family Planning Amendments Act of 2004

It shall be the stated policy of the Forum that:
(a) funds for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) shall be restored to their FY 2001 level.
(b) no organization receiving federal funding for family planning services domestically or abroad shall be prohibited from mentioning the full range of reproductive options, including abortion, to their clientele on pain of federal support.
(c) no funds shall be made available through the CHIP program for the care of zygotes, blastocysts, embryos, or fetuses as described by regulation as an "unborn child".
(d) no law shall be construed to punish someone for an attack on a pregnant woman in such a way as to treat the act against the zygote, blastocyst, embryo, or fetus as a separate offense.

Passed by the Third Congress of the A.F.F. (September 25, 2004)
Presented to the President on October 16, 2004
Entered into law after 7 days with no executive action.

I think it is still this.

[Jake]

Yes and no.
Subsection (d) would clearly repeal any such federal law, but no such law is on the books, altho the Unborn Victims of Violence Act has passed the US House the past few Congresses, and if the Senate were to pass it, I'm certain Bush would sign it.

Um, it was passed by the Senate on March 25, 2004 by a vote of 61-38. Bush signed it into law on April 1, 2004.

Our country diverged from real life in February, so there is no UVVA.