WASHINGTON – Following today’s vote in the House of Representatives on the “Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act” (H.R. 6099), U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) said the majority vote the legislation received shows that there is “overwhelming” concern for the pain children suffer during an abortion. “Today, we can no longer deny, trivialize, or gloss over the significant and ever expanding body of knowledge that shows that an unborn child suffers real pain-excruciating pain-when be or she is dismembered as in a D & E abortion, or jabbed with scissors in a partial birth abortion, or poisoned by an abortionist,” Smith said during debate on the House floor this morning. Smith’s legislation garnered a majority, but was just shy of “super-majority” necessary to pass under suspension of the rules….
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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