Federal - S 160
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act - S160
Introduced
January 16, 2019
Description
Would protect unborn babies from abortion, from the age (20 weeks or greater) at which they can feel pain.
Our Position
Support
Original Sponsor 1
Co-Sponsors 48
- Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
- Sen. John Boozman (R-AR)
- Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
- Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN)
- Sen. Shelley Capito (R-WV)
- Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Sen. Michael Crapo (R-ID)
- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
- Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)
- Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA)
- Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND)
- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
- Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
- Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)
- Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Sen. James Lankford (R-OK)
- Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
- Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA)
- Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
- Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
- Sen. David Perdue (R-GA)
- Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)
- Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID)
- Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)
- Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT)
- Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
- Sen. Benjamin Sasse (R-NE)
- Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
- Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
- Sen. Daniel Sullivan (R-AK)
- Sen. John Thune (R-SD)
- Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
- Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-PA)
- Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
- Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)
Latest Actions See More/Less
Jan. 9, 2020 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Loeffler, (R-Ga.) Jan. 8, 2020 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Shelby, (R-Ala.) Dec. 9, 2019 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Capito, (R-W.Va.) May 21, 2019 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Scott, (R-Fla.) Jan. 29, 2019 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Hawley, (R-Mo.) Jan. 17, 2019 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Cruz, (R-Texas) Jan. 16, 2019 — Original cosponsor(s): 42
Barrasso, (R-Wyo.) Fischer, (R-Neb.) Portman, (R-Ohio) Blackburn, (R-Tenn.) Grassley, (R-Iowa) Risch, (R-Idaho) Blunt, (R-Mo.) Hoeven, (R-N.D.) Roberts, (R-Kan.) Boozman, (R-Ark.) Hyde-Smith, (R-Miss.) Romney, (R-Utah) Burr, (R-N.C.) Inhofe, (R-Okla.) Rounds, (R-S.D.) Braun, (R-Ind.) Isakson, (R-Ga.) Rubio, (R-Fla.) Cassidy, (R-La.) Johnson, R. (R-Wis.) Sasse, (R-Neb.) Cornyn, (R-Texas) Kennedy, John (R-La.) Scott, T. (R-S.C.) Cotton, (R-Ark.) Lankford, (R-Okla.) Sullivan, (R-Alaska) Cramer, (R-N.D.) Lee, M. (R-Utah) Thune, (R-S.D.) Crapo, (R-Idaho) McConnell, (R-Ky.) Tillis, (R-N.C.) Daines, (R-Mont.) Moran, (R-Kan.) Toomey, (R-Pa.) Enzi, (R-Wyo.) Paul, (R-Ky.) Wicker, (R-Miss.) Ernst, (R-Iowa) Perdue, (R-Ga.) Young, T. (R-Ind.) Jan. 16, 2019 — Read twice and referred to: Senate Judiciary.Congressional Record p. S273
Commentary
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Commentary: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)
At five months, an unborn baby can detect light, hear sounds, swallow, and even experience taste. These unborn babies have nails on their fingers and toes, and hair has just begun to grow on their heads.
These babies feel pain. They scrunch their eyes, clench their hands, or pull back their limbs—just like any other child experiencing pain. They are even treated as patients during fetal surgery procedures, and giving them pain medication is standard practice.
By any definition, unborn babies at five months’ development are in all ways babies.
While modern medicine recognizes these unborn lives can experience pain, there is no federal law protecting these vulnerable humans from abortion. As a result, every year in our country, thousands of lives are painfully ended through this practice.
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