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Trent Franks' Abortion Bill Passes House, Which Doesn't Really Matter

By Matthew Hendley Tue., Jun. 18 2013 at 4:18 PM

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Anti-abortion fanatic/Congressman Trent Franks' bill to create a ban on abortions 20 weeks after conception has passed the House of Representatives.

That's not to say it's any closer to becoming a law, because it's really not.

See also:
-Abortion Bill Now Includes Rape Exception
-Franks: Not Many Rapes Result in Pregnancy
-Franks Submits Another Abortion Bill
-Franks on Gun Control: Abortion Is Bad
-Trent Franks' Abortion Obsession Goes International
-Trent Franks: Blacks Better Off Under Slavery Than With Abortion

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Trent Franks' Abortion Bill Now Includes Rape Exception, Thanks to Bone-Headed Comment

By Matthew Hendley Mon., Jun. 17 2013 at 12:30 PM

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Congressman Trent Franks

Anti-abortion fanatic/Congressman Trent Franks' bone-headed argument that a "very low" number of rapes result in pregnancies ended up being a losing argument.

Franks' bill banning abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy has since been changed, exempting victims of rape and incest.

See also:
-Franks: Not Many Rapes Result in Pregnancy
-Franks Submits Another Abortion Bill
-Trent Franks on Gun Control: Abortion Is Bad
-Trent Franks' Abortion Obsession Goes International
-Trent Franks: Blacks Better Off Under Slavery Than With Abortion

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Trent Franks Says There Aren't That Many Rapes That Result in Pregnancies

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Jun. 12 2013 at 1:52 PM

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Congressman Trent Franks

Anti-abortion fanatic/Congressman Trent Franks thinks the number of rapes that result in pregnancies is "very low."

Franks' comments are now going viral across the county, although it's not surprising for us back home, who have heard Franks belittle Black people, Jews, and women in general, to make points about his hatred of abortion. Now, add rape victims to the list of people Franks has unfairly used for his anti-abortion talking points.

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-Trent Franks Wants to Tell Women When It's Okay to Have an Abortion
-Abortion-Obsessed Congressman Submits Another Abortion Bill
-Trent Franks on Gun Control: Abortion Is Bad
-Trent Franks' Abortion Obsession Goes International
-Trent Franks Wastes Everyone's Time Again as His Abortion Bill Fails
-Trent Franks: Blacks Better Off Under Slavery Than With Abortion

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Trent Franks' Newest Abortion Bill Passes Subcommittee That Franks Chairs

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Jun. 5 2013 at 1:06 PM

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Congressman Trent Franks

Anti-abortion fanatic/Republican Congressman Trent Franks is celebrating his latest abortion bill passing out of a House subcommittee, which really isn't much to celebrate about.

We understand it's difficult to keep track of which abortion bill of Franks' is the newest, since his bread-and-butter issue of abortion seems to be all he talks about, but it's his proposal to create a nationwide ban on abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy that passed the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

See also:
-Trent Franks Wants to Tell Women When It's Okay to Have an Abortion
-Abortion-Obsessed Congressman Submits Another Abortion Bill
-Trent Franks on Gun Control: Abortion Is Bad
-Trent Franks' Abortion Obsession Goes International
-Trent Franks Wastes Everyone's Time Again as His Abortion Bill Fails
-Trent Franks: Blacks Better Off Under Slavery Than With Abortion

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Trent Franks Now Wants to Tell Every Woman in America When It's Okay to Have an Abortion

By Matthew Hendley Fri., May 17 2013 at 1:37 PM

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Abortion fanatic and sometimes Congressman Trent Franks

Anti-abortion fanatic/Republican Congressman Trent Franks has yet another abortion proposal, but this one's quite a bit more restrictive than his many other proposals.

Franks, who is trying again to ban abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy in Washington, D.C., now wants that proposed 20-week ban to extend nationwide.

See also:
-Trent Franks Does It Again: Abortion-Obsessed Congressman Submits Another Abortion Bill
-Trent Franks on Gun Control: Abortion Is Bad
-Trent Franks' Abortion Obsession Goes International
-Trent Franks Wastes Everyone's Time Again as His Abortion Bill Fails
-Trent Franks Trying to Stop the "Greatest Genocide in World History"
-Trent Franks: Blacks Better Off Under Slavery Than With Abortion
-Trent Franks Makes List of the 10 Weirdest Members of Congress

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Trent Franks Does It Again: Abortion-Obsessed Congressman Submits Another Abortion Bill

By Matthew Hendley Fri., Apr. 26 2013 at 2:14 PM

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Abortion-obsessed Congressman Trent Franks

There seems to be no end to Republican Congressman Trent Franks' fanaticism about abortion.

Again, Franks is proposing a bill that limits when women in Washington D.C. can get an abortion, a bill that he's proposed before, and a bill that's failed before -- just like every single other abortion bill he's proposed since he started, in 2003.

See also:
-Trent Franks on Gun Control: Abortion Is Bad
-Trent Franks' Abortion Obsession Goes International
-Trent Franks Successfully Wastes Everyone's Time Again as His Abortion Bill Fails
-Trent Franks Trying to Stop the "Greatest Genocide in World History"
-Trent Franks: Blacks Better Off Under Slavery Than With Abortion
-Trent Franks Makes List of the 10 Weirdest Members of Congress

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Trent Franks' Opinion on Obama's Gun-Control Proposals: Abortion Is Bad

By Matthew Hendley Thu., Feb. 14 2013 at 3:02 PM

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Congressman Trent Franks

Attention Republican Congressman Trent Franks: we get it -- you don't like abortion.

As we've been chronicling here for a few years now, Franks' fanaticism about abortion almost rivals that of the people who stand outside Planned Parenthood locations with posters full of fetus photos, shouting "murderer" at anyone who may be going inside -- and Franks' trend of fanaticism continues.

See also:
-Trent Franks' Abortion Obsession Goes International
-Trent Franks Successfully Wastes Everyone's Time Again as His Abortion Bill Fails
-Trent Franks Trying to Stop the "Greatest Genocide in World History"
-Trent Franks: Blacks Better Off Under Slavery
-Trent Franks: Gay Marriage "Literally is a Threat to the Nation's Survival"

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Trent Franks' Abortion Obsession Goes International as He Begs Ireland to Keep Ban

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Sep. 26 2012 at 2:20 PM

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Congressman Trent O'Franks

Republican Congressman Trent Franks' obsession with abortion has now gone international.

Franks, whose numerous anti-abortion proposals have been signed into law exactly zero times, is now concerned about the state of abortion in Ireland. Ireland.

See also:
-Trent Franks Successfully Wastes Everyone's Time Again as His D.C. Abortion Bill Fails
-Trent Franks Trying to Stop the "Greatest Genocide in World History"
-Washington D.C. Group Sets Up Constituent Service Day for "Mayor" Trent Franks
-GOP Abortion Bullies: "Abortion Is the Leading Cause of Death In the Black Community"
-Trent Franks: Gay Marriage "Literally is a Threat to the Nation's Survival"

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Trent Franks Successfully Wastes Everyone's Time Again as His D.C. Abortion Bill Fails

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Aug. 1 2012 at 1:35 PM

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This is what a "do-nothing Congress" looks like.

The House of Representatives slapped down another one of Congressman Trent Franks' anti-abortion bills yesterday, and Franks has now successfully wasted more than one hour and 38 minutes of Congress' time this year alone.

Franks' proposed ban on abortions past 20 weeks in Washington D.C.was short by 30 votes, as he kept the conversation on the bill going for more than 50 minutes before it was brought to a vote.

That doesn't even include the time it spent in the House Judiciary Committee, but Franks -- the Arizona Congressman -- took it upon himself to try to tell the District of Columbia how its abortions ought to be regulated. And he's fooling himself if he ever thought there was a chance in hell this would become a law.

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Trent Franks: Trying to Stop "Greatest Genocide in World History" or Just Obsessed With Abortion?

By Matthew Hendley Fri., Jul. 20 2012 at 7:00 AM

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There are reasons people blame Congress for doing nothing. The photo above is one of those reasons.

Forget everything you learned about the Holocaust, kids, because Congressman Trent Franks is contemplating whether abortion is actually the "greatest genocide in world history."

There's a reason we have a category of stories called "Trent Franks (Sigh)" and it's for stuff like this -- or when he said black people were better off under slavery.

The congressman earned a victory this week as his bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks in Washington D.C. -- yes, the Arizona congressman proposed this idea -- passed out of its committee in the House.

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