Tue Mar 29, 2022 – 2:08 pm EDT
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (LifeSiteNews) — Although a bill proposed in the Maryland Senate which would’ve allowed babies to be left to die for as long as the first 28 days after birth was withdrawn earlier this month after attracting national attention, two equally heinous abortion bills remain alive in the Annapolis state house.
The Maryland House of Delegates passed HB 1171, titled a “Declaration of Rights — Right to Reproductive Liberty,” which aims to place a question on ballots during the November state elections asking voters whether the right to an abortion should be enshrined in the Maryland Constitution.
Democrat legislators in Maryland, like those in other states, fear that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn its controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling this year, which banned states from outlawing abortions.
While the measure sponsored by Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones easily passed in the lower chamber, its progress was ostensibly halted in the state Senate on Friday.
“I am proud that our work as Republicans, including Floor amendments like my amendment to save all babies born alive after abortion like Gianna Gessen, have succeeded in stopping the horrific Abortion Amendment
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