Wed Aug 10, 2022 – 10:19 am EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Over the weekend, all Senate Democrats voted against an amendment from Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) which affirmed that only women can have babies.
Rubio’s amendment proposed to limit maternal and infant health funding to “biological females.” It also would have returned the “Inflation Reduction Act” legislation to committee, a massive tax-and-spending bill that replaces the failed “Build Back Better” legislation.
“The only people who are capable of being pregnant are biological females,” Senator Rubio said on the Senate floor. “And therefore I think federal pregnancy programs should be limited to biological females.” The term “biological females” is used to differentiate from the illogical “transgender female” which refers to a gender-confused man who pretends to be a woman.
“Across 5,500 years of human history, so far, every single pregnancy has been a biological female,” Rubio said.
Since only biological females can become pregnant I offered an amendment to limit our federal pregnancy programs to biological females
All 50 Senate democrats voted against itpic.twitter.com/bUAIEpqujW
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 7, 2022
In response, Washington Democrat Senator Patty Murray called the amendment “outrageous” and “urged a ‘no’
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