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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. House is voting on a bill today that prevents most late-term abortions on pain-capable babies.
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36) protects pre-born babies 20 weeks and older from being killed in abortions because they feel pain.
During late-term abortions, babies are torn apart limb by limb. Sometimes, the abortionist injects the drug digoxin into them, which causes fatal cardiac arrest. They can feel the needle piercing them during a digoxin abortion.
At 20 weeks, the pre-born baby is roughly the size of a small cantaloupe. The baby’s sex, which has been determined since fertilization, is identifiable. Mothers can feel their babies kicking at this age. Babies born at just 22 weeks’ gestation – 20 weeks post-fertilization – can survive outside the womb with medical care.
If the Act becomes law, abortionists convicted of committing illegal late-term abortions could spend up to five years in prison.
The bill builds the case for the reality of fetal pain by noting by 20 weeks, “pain receptors (nociceptors) are present throughout the unborn child’s entire body.”
“Mechanisms that inhibit or moderate the experience of pain do not
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