Rep. Trent Franks, who has been leading the effort to outlaw abortion after 20 weeks, was a guest on “WallBuilders Live” today, where he declared that Democrats who vote against this legislation will go to their graves regretting their votes.
After acknowledging that the legislation will likely be vetoed by President Obama, the Arizona Republican fumed that Obama has “vitiated and completely undermined any claim that he has for any compassion for the innocent or the helpless.”
Franks then declared that the results of the vote on this legislation in the House of Representatives would be “considered thoughtfully in history and really even in councils of eternity itself” and asserted that those who dared to vote against it would rue the day.
“I think that when those legislators who voted ‘no’ on this bill lay their head down on the pillow of the nursing home,” Franks said, “and look back and realize that they missed one of the greatest opportunities that they ever had to affirm the miracle of life and the importance of protecting those who can’t protect themselves, which was their purpose for being in Congress but they just didn’t realize it”:
