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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.
To see an always-current list of Senate co-sponsors,
click
here. Please urge your representative and your
senators to co-sponsor this legislation immediately, if
he or she has not already done so!
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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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Testimony of
Colleen Malloy, M.D., neonatologist and professor of
pediatrics, Northwestern University, in support of the
District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child
Protection Act (H.R. 3803) -- May 17, 2012
Testimony
of Anthony Levatino, M.D., J.D.,
obstetrician-gynecologist, former abortion provider, in
support of the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn
Child Protection Act (H.R. 3803) -- May 17, 2012
Testimony of
Byron Calhoun, M.D., professor of obstetrics and
gynecology, West Virginia University-Charleston, in
support of the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn
Child Protection Act (H.R. 3803) -- May 17, 2012
Testimony of Christy Zink, private witness, in
opposition to the District of Columbia Pain-Capable
Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 3803) -- May 17,
2012
NRLC Media Advisory: U.S. House panel to examine policy
of legal abortion until birth in nation's capital --
May 17, 2012
Updated NRLC letter to U.S. House members, urging
co-sponsorship of H.R. 3803 -- May 14, 2012
To view or download a pdf version of this letter, click
here
Georgia governor
signs Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act into law
-- May 1, 2012
Pro-abortion leaders
alarmed by the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn
Child Protection Act -- February 22, 2012
NRLC urges
U.S. senators to support S. 2103, the District of
Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act --
February 14, 2012
To view or download a pdf version of this letter, click
here.
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.
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 Adobe Acrobat Reader)
For pre-2010 NRLC documents on the
Pain of the Unborn, click here
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