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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