This week has already been packed full of conversation topics for the Front Porch. One thing we are learning about America is that we are bitterly divided. We have lost our moral compass as shown by a vote this week in the Senate on life. We have lost confidence in the ability of our government officials, as Rashida Tlaib calls Republican Mark Meadows a racist.







Senate Democrats: Babies born can be killed.



Republicans’ effort to outlaw infanticide of babies born after botched abortions collapsed Monday, falling victim to a Democrat-led filibuster in what could be Congress’s only chance to vote on the hot-button issue this year.



We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.The Declaration of Independence



The Democrat Voting on Life



All of the senators who have announced they’re running for the Democratic nomination in 2020, including Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Kirsten Gillibrand, N.Y., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voted “nay”.



Credit: National Right to Life



Sponsors of the bill said they were driven to act by recent state laws and bills they said would allow abortions up to the point of birth — and, in at least the case of one failed piece of legislation in Virginia, would have allowed a child born despite an attempted abortion to be left to die.



“It isn’t about new restrictions on abortion. It isn’t about changing the options available to women. It’s just about recognizing that a newborn baby is a newborn baby. Period,”Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican. He said it made him “uneasy” that such legislation was even considered controversial.



“The bill is solely meant to intimidate doctors and restrict patients’ access to care and has nothing, nothing, nothing to do with protecting children.”Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer



Dubbed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, the bill would have required that doctors care for a newborn baby who survived an abortion the same way they care for other newborns. If doctors failed to give medical care to a living baby, they would face criminal penalties.



Sen. Ben Sasse, the chief sponsor, said the fierce pushback from pro-choice activists was revealing.



“Planned Parenthood and others refuse to draw a line between abortion and infanticide.” “That’s what their lobbying the last week has shown. That should tell us something about what these groups are really about.”Senator. Ben Sasse



New New York Abortion Law and Infanticide



At abortion groups’ urging, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month signed a bill repealing a previous law that required a second doctor to be on hand for late-term abortions, so as to provide care in case an attempted abortion instead turns into a live birth.



That law also repealed a part of the law that declared such a child “should be afforded immediate legal protection under the laws of the State of New York.”



Virginia is for Abortionist



In Virginia, a Democratic state delegate offered legislation to repeal similar restrictions on late-term abortions. She sparked controversy when, at a legislative hearing, she said a woman in labor and about to give birth could still have an abo...