“Our Humanity Shines Brightest When We Stand Up For Those Who are Suffering, When We Protect People From Pain.”

By Dave Andrusko
National Right to Life

Hardly a surprise that House passage of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act was essentially blocked out on the networks and dismissed as posturing by abortion-happy reporters and columnists.

But if you came to NRL News Today, you could read powerful statements from committed pro-life Congressmen, the kind that make anyone not firmly in the anti-life camp ponder the meaning of slaughtering unborn babies capable of experiencing horrific pain during an abortion. (See, for example, here; here; here; and here.)

Rep. Diane Black remarked from her background as a nurse.

When I became a nurse over 40 years ago, I vowed to “devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care,” whether they were born or unborn. I am still committed to that today.

Forty years later, science tells us that after 20 weeks of pregnancy, unborn babies are able to feel pain inside the womb.

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act protects those who cannot protect themselves when handed a death sentence.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, like Rep. Black speaking during floor debate on H.R. 36, laid out the truth about fetal pain, plain and simple:

The fact is, children at 20 weeks feel pain. Science increasingly shows it. The European Journal of Anesthesiology describes how it is ‘critical’ to administer anesthesia during fetal surgery procedures. You know, a standard text on human development, Patten’s Foundations of Embryology, shows how the basics of the nervous system are formed by week four.

Doctor Ronald Brusseau of Boston’s Children’s Hospital wrote that by week 18, children have developed sensory receptors for pain. Two independent studies in 2006 used brain scans and showed unborn children respond to pain.

These children have noses, eyes, and ears. You can hear their heartbeats and feel them move. They are human.

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