May 31, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. - After a Thursday
afternoon vote, the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2012 failed to
reach the two-thirds threshold required to pass the U.S. House of
Representatives. The legislation would restrict abortions motivated by sex discrimination.
Tom McClusky, Senior Vice
President for Family Research Council Action (FRC Action), had the
following to say:
"We are deeply saddened that the
U.S. House of Representatives would vote to keep sex-selection abortion legal
in this country. That anyone on either side of the political aisle would vote
against a bill preventing gendercide in the United States is profoundly
troubling.
"Given that CDC data suggests
sex-selection abortion is occurring in our country, and a recentundercover video
released this week by
Live Action showing Planned Parenthood's willingness to facilitate a
sex-selection abortion, the American public cannot ignore this sexist practice.
"But because of lobbying by
Planned Parenthood and the White House, the bill to protect against
sex-selection abortion failed. We applaud the 246 Members on both sides of the
aisle who voted for the bill.
"We thank Rep. Trent Franks and
the Republican leadership for holding a vote on this legislation to ban this
tragic and discriminatory practice. We will continue to work with them to pass
this legislation in the future, so that pre-born women across the nation will
be protected from gendercide and sex discrimination," McClusky concluded.
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