Steve Daines: “the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act will do exactly that: protect unborn children who can feel pain. Studies…”

“the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act will do exactly that: protect unborn children who can feel pain. Studies have shown that babies can feel pain by 20 weeks or 5 months into pregnancy, and it is unconscionable to subject a child, at any stage in their life, to such pain. Anesthesiologists protect these children from the pain of surgery in the womb. Today these premature babies have a one in four chance of living a full and complete life. Do a quick Google search and type in ``20-week baby'' or ``20-week baby pictures.'' Take out your smartphone and Google it. The results of that search will pull up something like you see here to my right--a baby whose facial features are clearly visible. In fact, only seven countries in the world allow babies 20 weeks or older to be aborted-- seven countries. The United States is one of them, along with North Korea and China, to name a few. Overwhelmingly, Americans support this commonsense legislation. According to a November 2014 poll, 60 percent of Americans support a ban on abortion at 20 weeks, including nearly 60 percent of American women. This is a bill that a majority of the American people are behind, protecting babies after 20 weeks when they can feel pain. We must continue to fight for the most vulnerable in our society--the elderly, the disabled, and the unborn--for they don't have a voice up here on Capitol Hill.…”