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On Tuesday, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a voting session on a National Right to Life-backed bill to protect unborn children in the Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

According to a National Right to Life press release<\/a>, the bill, known as the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, will prevent abortions in the federal District after a child has reached 20 weeks’ fetal age. According to NRLC legislative director Douglas Johnson, \u201c[i]n the nation\u2019s capital, abortion is now legal, for any reason, until the moment of birth. The District Council, employing authority delegated by Congress, repealed the entire abortion law.\u201d Johnson explains that members of Congress and the president are responsible for the District\u2019s extreme policy \u201cbecause the Constitution says that Congress shall \u2018exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressman Trent Franks, a Republican from Arizona, introduced the House version of the bill, known as H.R. 3803. The bill explains that by 20 weeks after fertilization, a child has the capacity to experience \u201cgreat pain.\u201d Because of those findings, the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act will prevent abortions beyond 20 weeks after fertilization. The only exception in the law applies when the life of the mother is endangered.<\/p>\n

According to National Right to Life\u2019s Monday press release, at a hearing on May 17, expert testimony explained \u201cthat at 20 weeks fetal age, 6 percent of infants born spontaneously now survive long term in good neo-natal units.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson explained that \u201c[a] vote against this bill amounts to a vote to ratify the current policy of legal abortion, for any reason, until the moment of birth.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can find more information about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act here<\/a>. Seven states have already enacted legislation based on the National Right to Life model bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of now, abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy, for any reason, in D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nVote on bill to curb D.C. policy of legal abortion - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vote-on-bill-to-curb-d-c-policy-of-legal-abortion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vote on bill to curb D.C. policy of legal abortion - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As of now, abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy, for any reason, in D.C.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vote-on-bill-to-curb-d-c-policy-of-legal-abortion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-07-09T23:31:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-04-04T02:46:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20-weeks-human-fetus3-e1548532527251.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"814\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jordan Hooker\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jordan Hooker\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vote-on-bill-to-curb-d-c-policy-of-legal-abortion\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vote-on-bill-to-curb-d-c-policy-of-legal-abortion\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jordan Hooker\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/548b6853c41b3a05dc3b25daff00cc6e\"},\"headline\":\"Vote on bill to curb D.C. policy of legal abortion\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-09T23:31:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-04-04T02:46:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vote-on-bill-to-curb-d-c-policy-of-legal-abortion\/\"},\"wordCount\":311,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vote-on-bill-to-curb-d-c-policy-of-legal-abortion\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vote-on-bill-to-curb-d-c-policy-of-legal-abortion\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vote-on-bill-to-curb-d-c-policy-of-legal-abortion\/\",\"name\":\"Vote on bill to curb D.C. policy of legal abortion - 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