An Email Alert:
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Your help is needed in pushing through an important piece of pro-life
legislation expected to be considered in the House next week during the final days of the Congressional session! Sponsored by Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), the
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, H.R. 6099, would require abortion providers to
notify women who want to have an abortion 20 weeks after fertilization that
their unborn child feels pain and that they may request anesthesia for their unborn
child in order to reduce or eliminate that pain.
Currently co-sponsored by 93 Members, this bill was previously introduced in
both the 108th and 109th Congress in light of compelling testimony offered during
the Partial Birth Abortion trials. Witnesses testified that unborn children
past 20 weeks from fertilization feel excruciating pain during the course of an
abortion. Passage of this bill is crucial because women have the right to know
the facts about the medical development of their unborn children and that the
option to minimize the child's pain exists!
Congress has an interest in decreasing the pain of aborted human babies, as it
even requires, by law, for pain to be minimized when livestock are slaughtered!
A majority of the American people favor such common sense legislation, as a
2004 Zogby poll found that 77% of the public favors laws requiring that women
who are 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancy be given information about
fetal pain.
Since this bill is likely to be considered under the "Suspension Calendar,"
a two-thirds majority is required for passage. Consideration of this bill is
an opportunity to draw attention to the pain felt by those most vulnerable - the
unborn! We need your help! Please call your Congressman today!
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Unborn Child Pain Awareness
Act (H.R. 6099) on the morning of Wednesday, December 6, 2006.
Phone calls can be placed to any House member in support of the bill via the
Capitol Switchboard, 202-225-3121. An e-mail in support of the bill can be sent
to any House member via the Legislative Action Center, visit:
http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/issues/alert/?
alertid=9182256&type=CO
Senator Brownback Comments on Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act
CMA Doctors Urge Passage of Informed Consent Bill on Fetal Pain
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