Your challenge to people opposing the bill made it sound like you were defending it. You said it was "recognising and reinforcing" existing laws after all. My argument is the this is worse than unnecessary, but an underhanded tool to try to scare medical professionals from performing abortions at all.
Also, your "explanation" contained errors which were relevant to the nature and intentions of the bill.
A disturbing part of the bill states (2) The chapter heading for chapter 74 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking “PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTIONS” and inserting “ABORTIONS”.
Chapter 74 of title 18 reads:
a) Any physician who, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a
partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both. This subsection does not apply to a
partial-birth abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself. This subsection takes effect 1 day after the enactment.
(b) As used in this section—
(1) the term
“partial-birth abortion” means an abortion in which the person performing the abortion—
(A) deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother, for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus; and
(B) performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus;
There is no section permitting abortion in the case of rape, incest, risk of mother or fetal death or birth defects that preclude life for the fetus.
It's important to also note that the term "overt act" is nowhere defined either in the proposed bill or Chapter 74 title 18 so that when the law says, "other than the act of delivery" any act, such as not taking the dying child immediately to the hospital or giving it to the parents to hold and comfort until it dies or leaving the child to die naturally will be classed as an "overt act" and punished.
The Democrats were responsible in preventing this bill from becoming law.
