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The Pain
of the Unborn Child Archives
National
Right to Life Statement
on
U.S. House Vote on Unborn Child Pain
Awareness Act
-- December 6, 2006
NRLC letter to U.S. House members regarding
upcoming vote on Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (H.R.
6099). -- November 27, 2006
Revised version of Unborn Child Pain
Awareness Act (H.R. 6099)
-- September 19, 2006
(PDF file)
NRLC
Rebuttal to Pro-Abortion Paper on the Pain of Unborn Humans
-- August 25, 2005
"Fetal-Pain Study Omits an Abortion-Rights Link"
-- August 24, 2005
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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.
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Statement by Senator Sam
Brownback (R-Ks.) on introduction of the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (S.
2466)
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May 20, 2004
Statement by
Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) on introduction of the Unborn Child Pain
Awareness Act (H.R. 4420) --May 20,
2004
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
(PDF file -- requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Memo from NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson to science and medicine
editors/reporters on "medical pseudo-science that endangers women and their
babies" (the anesthesia-kills-babies myth) --
January 2, 1996
(PDF document -- requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Members of Congress Propagate the "Anesthesia Myth"
(NRLC quotesheet, early 1996)
(PDF document)
"Leading doc tells Congress pro-choicers 'misinformed'," New York Post
-- March 22, 1996
(PDF document)
Statement of Norig Ellison, M.D., president, American Society of
Anesthesiologists -- March 21, 1996
(PDF file)
Statement of David J. Birnbach, M.D., president-elect of the Society for
Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology --
March 21, 1996
(PDF document)
Statement of Jean A. Wright, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and
anesthesia, Emory University School of Medicine, on the capacity of unborn
children to feel pain during a partial-birth abortion.
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March 21, 1996
(PDF document)
Statement of David H. Chestnut, M.D., professor of anesthesiology at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham, on the effects of anesthesia on an
unborn child -- March 21, 1996
(PDF document)
Documents preparatory to March 21, 1996 hearing in House Judiciary
Constitution Subcommittee on "Fetal Death or Dangerous Deception? The
Effects of Anesthesia During a Partial-Birth Abortion." Letter from
subcommittee chairman Charles Canady (R-Fl.) about lack of medical experts
willing to defend claims of pro-abortion groups; letter from NARAL President
Kate Michelman declining to testify; witness list for the hearing.
-- March, 1996
(PDF document)
"Anesthesiologists Question Claims in Abortion Debate." American Medical
News -- January 1, 1996
(PDF document)
Revealing exchange between Norig Ellison, M.D., president of the American
Society of Anesthesiologists, and Mary Campbell, M.D., medical director of
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, regarding whether anesthesia
causes fetal death -- November 17, 1995
(PDF document)
Testimony of Norig Ellison, M.D., president, American Society of
Anesthesiologists, before the Senate Judiciary Committee
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November 17, 1995
(PDF
document -- requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Partial-birth abortionist Dr. Martin Haskell addresses the fetal pain issue
in 1993 interview with Cincinnati Medicine ("it's a lot like pets")
(PDF file)
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