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What’s Airing on Pro-Life Perspective Today? “A Closer Look at the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, Part 3”

Jan 12, 2012

By Dave Andrusko

Olivia Gans

All this week Pro-Life Perspective co-host Olivia Gans has chatted with Mary Spaulding Balch, JD, director of National Right to Life’s Department of State Legislation, about what will be a focus of the Movement in 2012: passage of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. In 2011, thanks to the work of pro-lifers in Idaho, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Alabama, there are now five states that prohibit the abortion of a child capable of feeling pain. Nebraska passed the first such protective measure in 2010.

Gans emphasized how, like the debate over the ban on partial-birth abortion, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act focuses the debate squarely on the defenseless little one. “It brings the conversation forward in a new way,” she said.

Balch noted that the impact of the law in Nebraska was almost immediate: an abortionist who specialized in late, late term abortions left the state.

Referring to the ban, Balch said, “This is something the American people can readily understand. This is a human being, capable of feeling pain, and we shouldn’t be killing that unborn child.”

Gans asked how pro-abortionists have responded. “They don’t want to discuss this issue,” Balch said, “because they know that if the American people realized the unborn child is capable of feeling pain, they will join us in passing this type of protective legislation.”

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Categories: Legislation