House Republicans Force Floor Vote on Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
At the end of February, on the heels of the U.S. Senate’s two pro-life votes, House Republicans successfully forced a vote on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act through a procedural measure called a Motion to Recommit (MTR). This was the 80th time that House Republicans, led by Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Missouri), sought a […]
U.S. Senators Debate and Vote on Two Pro-life Bills
Tuesday was a dark day for America. The Senate failed to advance two desperately needed pro-life bills: the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Pain Capable would protect unborn children from being aborted after 20 weeks, the threshold science definitively agrees unborn children feel pain. Born Alive […]
The States Act: Federal Marijuana Legalization Masquerading as States’ Rights
Marijuana is not a state’s rights issue and misguided bills like the STATES Act create more confusion and problems than it claims to solve. We are living in unprecedented times — never before have states bypassed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to legalize a federally illegal schedule I substance on the state level […]
Coalition Supports Trump Administration’s Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes/Vaping
This week the CDC announced that there are now 1,300 known cases of lung injury related to vaping and 26 confirmed deaths. The CDC also reported the youngest victim of the vaping epidemic, a 17-year-old male. Approximately 70% of the patients are male, and 80% of the patients are under 35 years old; 15% are […]
House Passes Disastrous Marijuana Banking Bill in Midst of Vaping Crisis
On Tuesday, a House Oversight Committee held a subcommittee hearing on vaping, and on Wednesday a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee also held a hearing on vaping. The CDC’s Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat in the House Oversight Subcommittee hearing said, “The epidemic is moving faster than our data gathering; we really are losing people in the meantime.” Wednesday, […]
Drug Dealing Under Federal Law
On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing titled “Challenges for Cannabis and Banking: Outside Perspectives.” Many senators touted S.1200, the Secure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2019 (SAFE Act) as a solution for state-legal cannabis (marijuana) businesses who currently are unable to access the U.S. banking system. […]
The Centennial Celebration of Women’s Suffrage
When the Founding Fathers gathered for the Continental Congress to draft a new Constitution, future first lady Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams and asked that he “remember the ladies”.[i] Women have been fighting for equal say in the political process since the founding of our nation, and 100 years ago this week, […]
Abortion at 20 Weeks Takes the Senate Stage
Since Roe v. Wade, technology has changed our understanding of preborn life, and we need to face the truth on this issue: unborn children do feel pain. Science and medicine have no issue acknowledging this. While some preborn children are administered anesthesia during necessary surgery in utero, others have their limbs ripped from their bodies in […]
House Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Disappoints, Fails to Protect Women
This week, the House passed a reauthorization bill of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), but this bill falls short and fails to accomplish its namesake goal. From its inception, the purpose of VAWA has been to protect, support, and seek justice for women who have suffered assault or abuse. CWALAC fully supports that mission. The goal of the current VAWA reauthorization […]
Has Your Representative Signed the Discharge Petition?
Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) filed a discharge petition on H.R. 962, the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The Senate has voted on this bill, but Speaker Pelosi refuses to bring it to the House floor for a vote, even though House republicans have publicly asked almost thirty times. A discharge petition is a special […]
Senate Dems Deny the Facts About the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
On Monday, February 25, the U.S. Senate failed to advance S. 311, the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska). The bill needed 60 votes and failed by a vote of 53-44, with three senators not voting: Sens. Cramer (R-North Dakota), Scott (R-South Carolina), and Murkowski (R-Alaska). Sens. Cramer and Scott’s offices informed CWA they were unable to attend the vote due to weather delays. They are both original cosponsors of the bill and […]
Legislative Update: House GOP Fights for Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
Last Thursday, Senator Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) expressed his disgust with Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s (D) comments describing how a child born alive after a botched abortion would be allowed to die. Sen. Sasse announced his intent to offer his bill, the Born–Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, via Rule XIV. This procedural measure in the Senate is […]
The Inequality of the “Equality Act”
On Monday the Heritage Foundation hosted a panel discussion titled, “The Inequality of the Equality Act: Concerns from the Left” where four self-described liberal feminists, including an openly gay woman and one man who formerly identified as transgender, detailed their concerns over transgender activism. The left is pushing special, elevated, civil rights-type protections for gender […]
California and New York Reach New Lows as Abortion Promoters
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Trump Administration has repeatedly stated that conscience rights are a priority, and it has taken strides to do just that. HHS has issued several regulations aimed at conscience protection in contraception, insurance plans, Title X grant funding, and strengthening existing conscience laws. A year ago, […]
CWA Engaged to End Unethical Fetal Tissue Research
Concerned Women for America is actively engaged in the effort to end unethical fetal tissue research. We are working with Congress to stop funding of this gruesome practice and are asking the Trump Administration to change policy. Some fetal tissue contracts were made by the Obama Administration and cannot be rescinded, but the Trump Administration […]
How the Republican minority House members can still have influence
Now that (most) of the election dust has settled, members have met their new colleagues, chosen their party leadership, and everyone is in the process of preparing for next year. On January 3, the largest Freshman (new members) class since WWII will be sworn into office. About 75% of House Republicans have never been in […]
Resolution for the Little Sisters of the Poor
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a final rule that provided much-needed relief to employers who had religious or moral objections to birth control or certain forms of birth control. After the Affordable Care Act became law, HHS was tasked with interpreting the intentionally vague part of the law that […]
Leg Update: The Final Countdown
In every midterm election since 1876, with three exceptions, the President’s party has lost seats. Voter turnout is always significantly lower in midterm years than in presidential election years. Out of eligible, registered voters: 62.8% voted in 2008, 54.2% voted in 2012, and 58% voted in 2016. Meanwhile, only 40% voted in 2010 and an […]
Legislative Update: Midterm Elections and What’s at Stake
Washington is practically a ghost town with the midterms almost two weeks away. Most staff and members of Congress are on the campaign trail, except for a few members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who held hearings this week on several of President Trump’s judicial nominees. There were only four Republican senators in attendance and […]
Leg Update: Sen. Judiciary Committee votes on Kavanaugh 11-10, What Now?
During the Judiciary Committee business meeting this morning, Sen. Flake (R-Arizona) decided that a FBI investigation would be helpful “to mend the nation”. So before he voted on Kavanaugh in committee, he asked for such an investigation to be conducted. A senator cannot make their vote contingent on anything, so this was mostly symbolic and […]