{"id":172834,"date":"2017-10-06T07:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=172834"},"modified":"2017-10-06T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T04:46:07","slug":"politicians-voted-against-saving-lives-children-feel-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/politicians-voted-against-saving-lives-children-feel-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"These politicians voted against saving the lives of children who can feel pain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass Trent Franks’ Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act<\/a>, which bans abortion after 20 weeks. This should<\/em> be a common-sense bill; after all, the United States is just one of a handful of countries in the world<\/a> that allows late-term abortion. Europe has much more restrictive laws on abortion<\/a> than the United States does, with few countries allowing abortion past the first trimester. And Americans also overwhelmingly support bans on abortion past 20 weeks<\/a>, including women. In fact, Americans support it by a nearly 2-to-1 margin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet 189 representatives still voted against the bill, which passed the House in a 237-189 vote. Considering the reality of late-term abortion, this is particularly horrifying. The gruesome D&E abortion procedure, typically done up to 24 weeks gestation, is explained by former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino, who has committed over 1,200 abortions. An abortionist uses a sopher clamp to literally rip the preborn baby apart limb from limb in this procedure, and then removes the baby’s body parts, like the intestines, spine, heart, and lungs. He finishes by finding and crushing the baby’s head:<\/p>\n