Roy Blunt: “I think the pain-capable bill was passed by the House in October. We have thousands of Americans coming this week…”

“I think the pain-capable bill was passed by the House in October. We have thousands of Americans coming this week, focusing on tomorrow, to talk about this issue. These two bills are two of their priorities, but of course their priority is to honor life. The March for Life is designed to do exactly that. Clearly, the March for Life--now in its 45th year--is not a celebration. It is not an anniversary or a celebration; rather, it is a time to remember that there is a lot that we still need to do to ensure that our society is a society that values every human life no matter how small, no matter how vulnerable, no matter how little capacity that life has to protect itself. And the way that society, I think, has decided to deal with this is looking at things like partial-birth abortion, the description of which was every bit as bad as the dismembering abortions, but Congress stepped forward on that topic. Some people who performed that particular act didn't stop doing it, but they are in trouble when you find out they have done it. So thousands of people from all over the country--in fact, tens of thousands of people; it is a number that I believe is always underreported.…”