Late-term abortions are visually shocking. They are obviously barbarous. And they are just as deadly as the more subtle abortion in the first trimester.
Trent Franks' “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” (H.R. 1797) would end abortion after a point that scientists agree unborn children can feel pain.
In a bipartisan accommodation that bowed to media pressure, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia added the exceptions to Trent Franks' “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” (H.R. 1797) on Friday.
“The recent Gosnell trial reminds us that when newborn babies are cut with scissors, they whimper and cry, and flinch from pain,” said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who voted on the bill Tuesday.
"You will know you have [the baby's head] when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix,” said former abortionist Anthony Levatino.