One after the other, prominent figures of the Democratic Party called the bill passed on Wednesday as extreme, according to which health care providers are obliged to do everything possible to save the lives of babies born during unsuccessful abortion attempts. Of course, the seemingly grotesque case could not occur if abortion were not legal in many states almost up to the moment of birth.

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted down a bill that would require health care providers to try to save a baby's life if the baby is born alive during or after an attempted abortion. Those who do not comply with the care requirements can face fines or up to five years in prison. The bill would not penalize the mother and would protect her from any type of criminal prosecution.

The vote was 220:210, all Democratic representatives voted with a clear "no". However, the bill is not expected to pass the Democratic-led Senate.

Democrats: Extreme, extreme, extreme

Fox News reported that leading Democratic lawmakers took to Twitter shortly after the House passed the bill to criticize Republicans who supported the extreme bill.

Among them was 82-year-old Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House of Representatives.

" Today, instead of joining Democrats to condemn all political violence , pushed their extreme anti-abortion agenda "

Pelosi wrote on her social media page.

In another tweet, he said: " Democrats will always defend reproductive freedoms against extreme Republicans who do not respect women's rights. "

At the same time, Pelosi, who spoke about women's rights, did not post about the right to life of babies and the protection of fetal life.

The paper also mentions Chuck Schumer, who did not vote on the bill as a senator, but expressed an opinion similar to Pelosi's. " The House of Representatives, controlled by pro-Trump Republicans, has expressed their extreme views on women's health with a bill that does not even have the support of the American people, " he wrote. According to him, the Democratic members of the Senate will form a defensive wall against the "extremely anti-abortion" program of the Republicans.

Vice President Kamala Harris also commented. According to him, the House of Representatives adopted an "extreme" bill, "which further endangers the right to reproductive health care in our country." He also noted that this is a

"another attempt by Republican lawmakers to control women's bodies."

Source: Fox News / hirado.hu

Front page image: The members of the Democratic Women's Fraction - which includes all the Democratic women in the House of Representatives - dressed in white on the occasion of the vote to, as they put it, "show their collective opposition to the anti-abortion program of the extreme Trumpist Republicans". / Source: Democratic Women's Fraction's Twitter page