The House of Representatives today (October 25, 2019) voted for the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, or PACT bill, will now make acts against animals a felony.
The legislation, sponsored by pro-abortion Florida congressmen Ted Deutch and Vern Buchanan would make animal abuse a federal crime with serious penalties and sentence abusers to as much as seven years in prison.
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This includes the crushing, burning, drowning, suffocation, or other violence causing serious bodily injury to animals. The new law will also revise a previous law passed in 2010 that banned “crush videos,” or videos showing animals being tortured to death by humans.
Right now, federal law only prohibits animal fighting and criminalizes abusers when they create and sell videos showing animal cruelty.
If passed, the new law will allow authorities to arrest animal abusers since they will now have federal jurisdiction and not be bound by state laws.
The PACT Act will permit authorities to go after those who abuse domestic pets. But when it comes to abuse — and death — of babies who survive abortions, Democrats are silent.
Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats continue to refuse a request to allow a vote on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, legislation that would stop infanticide and provide medical care and treatment for babies who survive abortions.
