Landmark: House to vote on DC fetal pain ban
I wrote July 19 that the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (HR 3803) was in danger of not getting a vote in the House in the final days of session.
But now word comes from National Right to Life that a vote will indeed be held July 31:
“This roll call will be a landmark – the House has never before voted on the question of whether to endorse legal abortion for any reason until birth,” said NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson. “Under the Constitution, members of Congress and the President are ultimately accountable for the current abortion-until-birth policy. Any lawmaker who votes against this bill is voting to ratify the extreme policy currently in effect in the nation’s capital, where abortion is perfectly legal for any reason until the moment of birth.”
“If we can achieve a big majority on this groundbreaking initial vote, it will lay the foundation to achieve legal protection for pain-capable unborn babies in the not-distant future,” Johnson said.
In other words, legislators voting against the DC fetal pain ban will be endorsing abortion for any reason whatsoever until the moment of birth, as is currently the law in our nation’s capital. As was noted in The Weekly Standard on July 25:
The Washington Surgi-Clinic, located just five blocks west of the White House, advertises on its website that it performs abortions 26 weeks (6 months) into pregnancy. The website of another clinic advertises second- and third-trimester abortions involving the “intercardiac injection of medication into the fetal heart” at a “private facility in the Washington, D.C. area.” All of this is perfectly legal.
While abortion proponents continue to deny medical advances demonstrating preborn and born babies by at least 20 weeks gestation feel pain when being torn limb from limb via the late-term dilation and evacuation abortion, eight* states have now moved ahead since 2010 with fetal pain legislation banning abortions past that age.
H.R. 3803 currently has 223 House cosponsors. Check the list. If your rep isn’t on it, please call him or her and urge support.
*Those states are Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Arizona, meanwhile has enacted a ban on abortions past 18 weeks gestation.
How can you make a law based on false science? Fetal pain has not and cannot be proven in clinical trials… Should we ban orange juice because it causes prostate cancer???
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Once again, I’m so proud of our democrat representative, Dan Lipinski! I think I’ll call and tell him so!
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A friend told me that the nervous system is pretty much in place by the 19th week of pregnancy so the unborn probably are able to feel pain at that point.
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Biggz…can you prove that you feel pain? I mean, I can hear you howl and see you turn white or red as the case may be, I can see your injuries and I can imagine that you must be in some pain. But what is the proof? With the BABY in the womb, we see him do things that we do to indicate pain. Watch it if you dare. But how could we anymore prove their pain scientifically–the way we prove the Pythagorean Theorem–than we can prove yours? In fact, YOU are more likely to be a phony than the babe in the womb!
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Is it more scientific, Biggz, to believe that a “fetus” with a nervous system can feel pain, or that my magical birth canal activates my baby’s ability to feel pain?
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Organs are in place by WEEK 8! brain and spinal cord form first!
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@Biggz
“How can you make a law based on false science?”
Ask the roe judges.
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Let’s see how could we recreate you being torn from limb to limb Bigzz and have you do a pain rating scale? I wouldn’t want this done on my worst enemy if I ever had one and not even on a pro-abort like you Bigzz, I sincerely mean that because no one should ever be mutilated and murdered even in their mother’s womb. Guess I could never being as cold-blooded as you and the POTUS. It is a blessing to be PRO-LIFE.
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And I am so disappointed in my republican rep. Judy Biggert that I think I will call and tell her so!
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There’s a not one rep from my state on the list. No surprize, they’re all liberal bums.
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I support Biggz in his arguments! There are no clinical trials that demonstrate a fetus feels pain. Just because some person outside of a womb can feel pain (referring to Jamie’s comments) that really has nothing to do with fetal pain in the uterine environment during an abortion. I think a huge problem in the abortion debate is that science is really brushed under the rug. Lets look at clinical trials and scientific discovery for more answers about what is happening in utero. I find the idea of a future where pregnancy could be completed in an “artificial uterus” quite amazing and could solve some abortion related issues.
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