WASHINGTON, D.C., September 24, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- The U.S. Senate has voted down advancing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to debate. Prolifers are not entirely disappointed, but are noting three sell-outs among the ranks of Republicans. The majority of senators wanted to advance the bill, which would protect babies at least 20 weeks beyond fertilization (which is equivalent to 22 weeks of pregnancy — about the start of the sixth month), to a Senate floor debate. Fifty-four senators voted to move the prolife bill forward, but the Senate requires 60 votes to avoid a filibuster.
Forty-two senators —40 Democrats and two Republicans— voted against advancing the bill, which included exceptions for rape and incest and "the life of the woman" (which has always been a universally- recognized exception in those extremely rare cases).
The two Republicans voting against life were Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois. Additionally, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, missed the key prolife vote entirely.
Laurie Higgins at Illinois Family Action described the bill as preventing "the torturous deaths of 18,000 tiny, defenseless human beings every year, humans who, while able to feel pain, are being crushed and dismembered in their mothers' wombs."
Collins' Maine is the most pro-abortion state in the nation. She says she is against late-term abortion, but complains that the prolife bill didn't include strong enough exceptions.
"I have advocated that we add language that would provide an exception when the woman is at 'serious risk of grievous injury to her physical health,'" Collins wrote, explaining her voting down the prolife bill. But medical professionals agree, there are no situations where abortion is medically necessary to save the life of the mother.
Over one thousand doctors and medical researchers in obstetrics and gynaecology have signed the Dublin Declaration, a document stating that abortion is never medically necessary to save a mother’s life. Former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson testified in 1991, “If women with heart and liver transplants can be carried successfully through pregnancy, we can no longer conceive of any medical condition which would legitimize abortion.”
The physicians and researchers admit that some procedures in rare circumstances, such as surgeries for ectopic pregnancies, are necessary and do unavoidably result in the conceived baby's death. However, they say there is "a fundamental difference between abortion, and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child." Such surgeries are not direct abortions, "the purposeful destruction of the unborn child," the doctors state.
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Washington DC. Stop the murder of American babies.
