Thursday 5/20/2004
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act

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Senator Brownback, along with other House and Senate members and advocacy groups held a press conference today to introduce the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act.
The bill will require abortion providers to notify a woman who is seeking abortion 20-weeks after fertilization, of the growing medical evidence that the unborn child in her womb can feel severe and extreme pain during an abortion procedure. If the woman continue with the abortion procedure after being given this information, she would be offered anesthesia for the unborn child in order to lessen --to some degree--the pain that would be experienced by the unborn child.

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Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Representative Christopher Smith (R-NJ 4th)
Representative Jo Ann Davis (R-VA 1st)/
Representative Joseph Pitts (R-PA 16th)
Senator Jim Talent (R-MO)
Representative Philip Crane (R-IL 8th)
Douglas Johnson, National Right to Life
Tony Perkins, Family Research Council
Barrett Duke, Southern Baptist Convention

CWA’s Senior Policy Director, Wendy Wright, explains why the bill is likely to encounter opposition from those who support the killing of the unborn. Click here to listen.

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