“If this were a dog or a horse and they were being exterminated and feeling pain, people would be going berserk,” Dana Cody of Life Legal Defense Foundation told LifeSiteNews.com.
A bill that would have prohibited abortions after 20 weeks gestation based on the unborn child's capacity to feel pain has failed to clear the 2/3 majority hurdle it needed to pass in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Supporters of the bill cite extensive medical evidence that children put to death by abortion feel the pain of the procedure by at least 20 weeks gestation.