Dems thwart Senate Republicans on 2 abortion-related bills
(WorldNews Health)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a pair of Republican bills that would ban most late-term abortions and threaten prison for doctors who don’t try saving the life of infants born alive during abortions. The measures have been defeated multiple times in recent years, but Senate Republicans pushed for renewed votes to allow GOP lawmakers to make an election-year appeal to conservative voters. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accused Democrats of bowing to `the radical demands of the far left” to `drown out common sense` and the views of millions of Americans. “It almost defies belief that an entire political party could find cause to object to this...