Republicans Waste No Time Introducing Pro-Life Legislation
With two House Republicans introducing a bill on Tuesday that would ban legal abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the GOP has wasted little time in introducing pro-life legislation that is likely to be voted on in the Senate with Republicans now controlling both houses.
The bill, which was sponsored by Rep. Ted Franks, R-Ariz., and Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and is similar to a bill of the same name that passed the House last year, which also banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy but stalled in the Democrat-contolled Senate.
"More than 18,000 'very late term' abortions are performed every year on perfectly healthy unborn babies in America," Franks asserted in a statement to Life News. "These are innocent and defenseless children who can not only feel pain, but who can survive outside the womb in most cases, and who are...