Tag: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearing on protecting pain-capable unborn children

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will lead a hearing on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 160). Since 2010, National Right to Life and its state affiliates have led the effort to protect pain-capable unborn children, starting with enactment of model legislation in Nebraska. Sixteen states have enacted …

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Florida Right to Life Legislative Alert ! Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

By Jan Halisky, Florida Right to Life, Vice-President for Legislative Affairs In the upcoming Florida Legislative session (to commence March 5), State Senator Joe Gruters has sponsored SB-558, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. This bill is supported by Florida Right to Life. (A federal version of it was advocated in the State of the …

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Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act introduced in Delaware

By Dave Andrusko Earlier today I read a story written by a pro-abortionist who lamented, “If you’ve been following the news surrounding reproductive rights recently, you’d be forgiven for asking yourself whether we’re living in a world where Roe v. Wade was never decided.” Of course, this was a gross over-exaggeration spurred by his underlying …

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Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act moves to Senate after Missouri House overwhelmingly passes H.B. 1266 on vote of 117-31

Already the law in 16 states By Dave Andrusko On Tuesday the Missouri House of Representatives gave final approval to H.B. 1266 which would protect unborn babies from abortion who are 20 weeks and older, a developmental point by which the baby would feel unimaginable pain as she is torn apart. The bill now moves …

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Missouri House initially votes to pass Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Already the law in 16 states By Dave Andrusko Step by step by step, more and more states are moving forward to join the 16 states which have already enacted the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Yesterday the Missouri House of Representatives initially approved H.B. 1266. The measure would protect unborn babies from abortion who …

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President Trump, Vice President Pence criticize Senate failure to pass Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

By Dave Andrusko Yesterday after Senate pro-lifers were unable to garner the 60 votes necessary to move to an actual vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (“invoke cloture”), both pro-life President Donald Trump and pro-life Vice President Mike Pence blasted the Senate’s 51-46 vote. Let me quote them and then offer three thoughts. …

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The NY Times (of course) misreads the fallout from a procedural vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

By Dave Andrusko If we can believe the sarcastic lead of Sunday’s New York Times editorial, pro-abortionists should be “grateful” that pro-life Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) held a cloture vote today to proceed to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act sponsored by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). That the Times (in this case correctly) …

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U.S. Senate votes on nationwide protections for pain-capable unborn children, falling short of 60 votes

WASHINGTON – A majority of the U.S. Senate today voted to advance the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 2311), but on a near party-line vote, a minority blocked consideration of the bill. Fifty-one senators (forty-eight Republicans and three Democrats) voted to take the bill up for debate, but 60 votes were required. This bill …

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Some thoughts in anticipation of next week’s Senate action on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

By Dave Andrusko It was the last NRL News Today post for Wednesday and went out late. But the announcement by pro-life Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that the Senate will bring up the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act next week was news too important to hold until this morning. “Now Congress has an …

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NRLC urges Senators to vote to proceed to Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Dear Senator: Majority Leader McConnell has indicated that on Monday, January 29, the Senate will vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 2311) sponsored by Sen. Lindsey Graham. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the nationwide federation of state right-to-life organizations, urges you to vote …

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Senate to debate Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act next week

By Dave Andrusko As NRL News Today was about to post for the day, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) announced that the Senate will bring up the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act next week. “Now Congress has an opportunity to take a step forward. …I’m pleased to have filed cloture on this bill to …

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Public strongly supports pain-capable legislation, protection for right of conscience, new poll shows

By Dave Andrusko Let’s put together some recent NRL News Today posts and see what a new McLaughlin & Associates poll tells us about the “acceptability” of pro-life initiatives and Trump Administration executive actions that protect the rights of conscience. First, we’d talked about how the narrative that says bills such as the Pain-Capable Unborn …

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