Posted on 12/05/2006 3:50:58 PM PST by Coleus
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act -- Bill # H.R. 6099
Telephone in support of the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act!
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The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act will be up in the
House of Representatives tomorrow!
An unborn child has less legal protection from pain than commercial livestock.
Congress will vote tomorrow to give unborn children some protection from pain. The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (H.R. 6099) would require abortion providers to inform women seeking abortions 20 weeks after fertilization that medical evidence suggests her unborn child will feel pain during the procedure. This critical bill, sponsored by Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), would also ensure the woman will have the option of choosing anesthesia for her child, so that the unborn child’s pain is less severe. CLICK HERE to urge your Representative to support H.R. 6099, the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act today! Tell your member that unborn children deserve these protections! H.R. 6099 will extend commonsense protections to unborn children and highlight the horror of abortion.
Remind your Representative that a Zogby poll conducted in April 2004 found that 77% of Americans favored a law requiring that information about fetal pain be distributed to women whose pregnancies are 20 weeks or more along before they can have an abortion. Due to House procedure, the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act will likely require a two-thirds vote of House members to pass. You can help! Click here to contact your Representative today to say that the pro-life vote is YES on Unborn Child Pain Awareness. I appreciate your urgent support of this important bill.
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Wednesday morning, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a crucial pro-life bill. The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, H.R. 6099, will be the last pro-life bill voted on before the new Democrat-controlled Congress convenes in January. It's likely the last opportunity to pass significant pro-life legislation in the next two years. |
ACTION ALERT - Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act Must Pass! Congress is once again considering passage of the “Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act” (H.R. 6099). |
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Does America really want to make it more palitable to kill babies
by telling moms to sedate them before the abortionist does
the dirty deed?
Is it possible this will generate more funds for abortionists who
will administer the pain meds? If they are unscrupulous and
fail to administer but bill for the pain meds, who will monitor that?
Why does this legislation state that the fetal age will be determined
by the "good faith judgment of the abortion provider." Say what?
Good faith judgment of an abortionist who makes money off the
bodies of dead babies? Come on NRL can't you at least call them
abortionists? Why dignify them with the euphemism "abortion provider?"
Babies who are about to be dismembered deserve more than Novocaine!
They need statesmen to proudly proclaim the evil needs to stop.
Thank you so much for all you do in keeping us informed!
I have contacted my state representatives!
Thanks for letting us know about this...
At least it will make woman aware that there is pain.
Here's the actual bill:
http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.6099:
It should have stopped with informing. Any measure
that says "and then you can kill the baby," is immoral.
It is disgusting isn't it. This innocent life is going to be snuffed out, but you can be humanitarian about it and give it pain killers. Don't you feel better now "mom" and "doctor"? Pain or not, the result is still a dead baby. When is human life going to be considered precious again?
Pro-life activisit attorney Jay Seculo supports this, and you can call him and ask/challenge him, if you want. The number of his talk show is at aclj.org, and his show is live at noon. If you call right at noon, you can usually get through.
I'd have to agree with you. To set the words therein contained in the "Brochure" into law is to further validate the notion that abortion is acceptable and that any negative aspect of it can simply be medicated away.
I appreciate the intention behind this by pro-lifers but in light of my firm conviction that abortion is no more nor less than the intentional killing of a defenseless human being for purely selfish reasons I won't participate in promoting this bill.
The bill did not pass!!!!
Here is some background why they wanted this bill:
Congress to Consider Neonatal Pain Abortion Bill
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
December 05, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - In a last ditch effort before the end of the congressional term on Friday, pro-life GOP lawmakers are promoting a bill that would require women considering an abortion to be informed of the "intense pain their baby would feel during an abortion."
The "Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act" was introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) in September, but Congress has failed to act on the legislation until now. The bill, which requires a two-thirds majority to pass, will come before the House on Wednesday.
"Today's society must face the morally troubling question of how much pain an unborn child suffers when he or she is dismembered or poisoned by an abortionist - and does a woman have a right to know that her child is pain-capable and that an abortion will likely impose excruciating pain upon the baby," Smith said at a Capitol Hill press conference on Monday.
Smith called abortions "gruesome," adding, "In this procedure, this child suffers and suffers immeasurably."
He said that anesthesia given to the pregnant woman does not reach her unborn child. At 20 weeks' gestation, he said, a child in the womb can feel pain.
"Under H.R. 6099, women considering an abortion past 20 week fertilization age must be given a brochure describing unborn pain," Smith said. "After receiving the brochure she would be given a decision form on which she may either request or decline direct pain-relieving drugs for her baby.
"The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act is a modest but necessary expansion of informed consent," he added.
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| Total | Democrat | Republican | Independent | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayes: | 250 | (58%) |
|
40 | 209 | 0 |
| Nays: | 162 | (38%) |
|
152 | 9 | 1 |
| No Vote: | 20 | (5%) |
|
10 | 10 | 0 |
| Required: 2/3 | ||||||
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