From Christian Newswire:

A bill to generally require notification of one parent before a minor obtains an out-of-state abortion died Friday when U.S. Senate Democrats voted overwhelmingly to block it.

New Jersey's senators, Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg, were among the senators who voted to kill the bill.

Hours before Congress adjourned for pre-election campaigning, 57 senators voted to remove the final procedural obstacle to S. 403, which would have cleared the bill for transmission to President Bush for his signature. But 57 was three votes short of the 60 required under Senate rules to break through a procedural roadblock erected by the Senate Democratic leadership.

The Senate Democratic leadership had been obstructing the progress of the legislation for months. This week, pro-life Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tn.) made a bold attempt to overcome the minority's obstructionism by forcing the decisive cloture vote.

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