One day when we get a conservative in the White House bills like this will become the law of the land.

Via Politico:

The House Tuesday passed a bill that would ban most abortions nationwide after 20 weeks.

The most far-reaching abortion legislation in the House in a decade was approved 228-196, mostly along party lines.

The vote is largely symbolic: The bill will be dead on arrival in the Senate. And the White House has already threatened to veto the “fetal pain” legislation, which is based on the controversial assertion that a fetus can feel pain at that stage of development.

But Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), the bill’s sponsor, didn’t find that discouraging. He pointed to the last time Congress passed a bill of this scope, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. That bill fell short and faced court battles before it finally became law.

“I think if you hearken back to partial-birth abortion, … everybody said, ‘You know, it’s not constitutional; it can’t pass; it can’t go anywhere,’ and it took time to do that, and it even had to succeed a presidential veto. But it eventually did,” Franks said.