Senator Will Reintroduce Measure Highlighting Fetal Pain During Abortion

[Tazeeyore]

http://www.lifenews.com/ultrasound3d2.jpgWashington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life senator says he will reintroduce a measure during the next session of Congress that will focus on the pain an unborn child experiences during an abortion procedure. Sen. Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, will put forward the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act that would require abortion practitioners to explain to women considering an abortion after 20 weeks into the pregnancy that unborn children feel intense pain. They would be required to ask the mother if she wants her baby to be given anesthesia prior to the abortion. Brownback told the Washington Post that the presidential election results show Americans favor such legislation. "This was a very clear election cycle... The country has shifted. You've got a pro-life electorate," Brownback said. An April Zogby poll shows that 77% of Americans back "laws requiring that women who are 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancy be given information about fetal pain before having an abortion." Bush administration attorneys are credited with introducing the concept of fetal pain during initial hearings into lawsuits filed by abortion advocates seeking to overturn the ban on partial-birth abortions. During the trial, Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, a pediatrician at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, said he believes unborn children suffer "severe and excruciating" pain (http://m1e.net/c?34860961-C6mA8EzmPLl8c%40782509-ZyOBkFdHl9UWU) because "the fetus is conscious" during the abortion procedure. Pro-life groups hope the information will lead some women to decide in favor of carrying the pregnancy to term instead of having an abortion. Read the complete story (http://m1e.net/c?34860961-NzHQ12gc9YxCk%40782510-FMJhTrd5cgcjU).

[Rink]

Fetal pain during an abortion is kinda an oxymoron when abortions end up in the termination of said 'fetus

yea I use their idiotic terminology for a reason..... to highlight the stupidity of the use of such terms.

[DeclinetoState]

Stacking the Dreck
12.21.2004

If, as the old adage goes, “Santa Claus is comin’ to town,” and if he’s “made a list and checked it twice,” then I’d like to find out who asked for this little gift:Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) being named to the Senate Judiciary Committee (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14759-2004Dec20.html). [You need to register to read this link.] For reproductive rights advocates, that’s akin to giving the fox the keys to the henhouse.

Not satisfied with a simple majority on the committee, the caucus leaders reconfigured the ratios of the committee to give Republicans a two-vote advantage and then re- configured again to ensure an anti-choice majority. With this restructuring, gone are nearly all hopes of stopping any judicial nomination that comes before the committee -- not that the committee voted to kill Bush’s nominees last session. This would include any hope of the committee thwarting a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. No matter how extreme or what his or her views.

Could this be the proverbial fire to which Senator Arlen Specter’s (R-PA) feet will be held? Remember that before being named chairman of the committee, Specter had said that Bush might have difficulty with a Supreme Court nominee who opposed Roe v. Wade? Then he softened, saying that all nominees would move swiftly through the committee. Just in case Senator Specter should waiver, he’ll have Coburn and Brownback there to shore him up. Or as Jay Sekulow of the right-wing American Center for Law and Justice put it, “I’m sure Senators Brownback and Coburn will ably assist Chairman Specter…”

Specter needs the assistance of Coburn and Brownback like a submarine needs a screen door.

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