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The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, Senate Bill 3275, and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, Senate Bill 311, would increase protections for both born and unborn babies who are targeted for abortions.
Pro-life leaders are urging Americans to contact their U.S. Senators and tell them to vote for both important pieces of pro-life legislation.
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks when strong scientific evidence indicates unborn babies can feel pain.
There are more than 12,000 abortions annually after 20 weeks of pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of the abortion lobby. If passed, the law could save tens of thousands of unborn babies from painful abortion deaths.
Growing evidence indicates that unborn babies are capable of feeling intense pain by 20 weeks, if not sooner. In January, a “pro-choice” scientific expert in fetal pain urged the medical community to put politics aside and consider new evidence that unborn babies may feel pain as early as 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Also slated for a vote next week is the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The bill requires that a baby born alive during an abortion must be given the same degree of medical care that any other baby born at the same gestational age would, including transportation to a hospital.
Both pieces of legislation will require a 60-vote threshold because pro-abortion Democrats are likely to filibuster both of them.
On January 29, 2018, the Senate failed to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would’ve banned abortions after 20 weeks, after Democrats filibustered the bill. In a 51–46 vote, the bill failed to make it out of debate and to a final floor vote. Republican Senators voted 48 to 2 in favor of voting to prevent abortions after 20 weeks, while Democrats voted 44 to 3 against it.
In the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Measure S. 311 to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion, all 50 Republican Senators voting voted in favor of this measure. Democrat Senators voted 44 to 3 against it.
Below is a link where you can identify and contact your Senators:
https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
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