Unborn Child Pain Index

The Pain of the Unborn Child

Please take action now to pass the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act --
to find out how, click here!

To see an always-current list of House co-sponsors of the bill, arranged by state, click here. Please urge your representative to co-sponsor the bill immediately, if he or she has not already done so!

Updated NRLC letter to U.S. House members, urging cosponsorship of H.R. 3803 -- January 31, 2012
To view or download the letter in PDF format, click here.

Statement by NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson on Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act -- January 23, 2012

Text of H.R. 3803, the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act -- January 23, 2012 (PDF file)

NRLC letter to U.S. House of Representatives, urging cosponsorship of the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act -- January 19, 2012
To view or download the letter in PDF format, click here.

Alabama Becomes Fifth State to Protect Pain-Capable Unborn Children -- June 16, 2011

Oklahoma Becomes Fourth State to Protect Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Abortion -- April 20, 2011

Idaho Becomes Third State to Protect Pain-Capable Unborn Children -- April 14, 2011

Kansas Governor Brownback Signs Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act -- April 12, 2011

Nebraska legislature passes NRLC-backed Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act -- April 13, 2010

Fetal Pain: The Evidence. A factsheet from www.doctorsonfetalpain.org -- March 14, 2011

NRLC Rebuttal to Pro-Abortion Paper on the Pain of Unborn Humans -- August 25, 2005

Report of Dr. Kanwaljeet S. Anand, expert on fetal pain, to U.S. federal court reviewing the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act -- January 15, 2004

"Partial-Birth Abortion on Trial," by Cathy Cleaver Ruse. This article, which appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of Human Life Review, contains extensive excerpts from sworn testimony by abortionists, and by medical experts, regard late abortion methods and the pain that they cause to unborn children.

Some of the Methods Used

To see medical illustrations of a "dilation and evacuation" (D&E) abortion, a method often used during the second trimester, click here.

To see medically accurate illustrations of the partial-birth abortion method, usually used during the fifth and sixth months (and sometimes later), click here.

For pre-2010 NRLC documents on the Pain of the Unborn, click here