Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Pain-Capable Posturing in the U.S. House of Representatives


House Votes to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks of Pregnancy.  (Bloomberg News, 6/18/2013)

Excerpt: Jean Schroedel, a politics professor at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, said House Republicans are seeking to “placate” their base on abortion, even as they recognize the measure won’t become law.

The base, as in  lacking or indicating the lack of higher qualities of mind or spirit : ignoble

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