By Dave Andrusko There are certain “givens” that pro-abortionists will defend with the unborn child’s dying breath. They constitute such a key component of the pro-abortion narrative that there is no amount of evidence that can be allowed to cast even the slightest...
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Senate Judiciary Committee hears witnesses testify about “Late-Term Abortion: Protecting Babies Born-Alive and Capable of Feeling Pain”
By Dave Andrusko On March 16, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from a panel of expert witnesses on two very important bills: S. 2066, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivor’s Protection Act, and S.1553, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. NRL News...
Wisconsin Becomes 12th State to Pass Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
NEW ORLEANS, La. – Yesterday, the Wisconsin State Assembly gave final approval to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act – a bill that protects unborn children from abortions after 20 weeks fetal age, a point by which there is compelling evidence that unborn...
Wisconsin Doctors Respond: Unborn Babies DO Feel Pain
Editor’s note. This appeared on the webpage of Wisconsin Right to Life, NRLC’s state affiliate. There was a time not too long ago when obstetricians once claimed that newborns felt no pain, so it was okay to do a circumcision on a baby boy without anesthesia. The fact...
Fetal Pain Bill Passes South Carolina House 80-27
COLUMBIA, SC –On Wednesday the South Carolina House passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H4113) by an overwhelming vote of 80-27. The bill recognizes a compelling state interest in protecting the life of an unborn child beginning at 20 weeks...
House to vote on Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act January 22
By Dave Andrusko With the 42nd anniversary of Roe just nine days away, it is about the time when the annual crescendo of media attention [read cacophony] begins to roar. Many are just pro-abortion press releases disguised as news stories, others are more...
Pro-abortionists fundraise against a bill to spare pain-capable unborn children from the agonies of abortion
By Dave Andrusko If you were busy and/or otherwise occupied Tuesday, please take a few minutes to read “NRLC and allies press for Senate action on key pro-life bill, but Senate Democrats block votes” At a Capitol Hill press conference, NRLC President Carol...
New Poll: South Carolina voters overwhelmingly support protecting pain-capable unborn children
WASHINGTON – A poll released today by National Right to Life and South Carolina Citizens for Life finds that 63% of registered voters in South Carolina support a law that would prohibit abortion after 20 weeks, when there is overwhelming scientific evidence...
Fighting for a chance: John Mark and all preborn Texans
By Sarah Crawford, Texas Right to Life John Mark weighed 1 lbs, 4.8 ounces when he was born at 26 weeks. His mother, Mia Garza McCord, Chief of Staff for Texas State Senator Kelly Hancock, delivered John Mark on April 10, 2013. More than two months later, Wendy...
Lawmakers seek to protect unborn babies who can feel pain
MCCL-backed bill would prevent abortion of pain-capable unborn children ST. PAUL — Legislation to stop abortions after the point at which the unborn child can feel pain was introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives today. The measure would prohibit...