Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this week the Senate is considering the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. This legislation would protect unborn children who have reached the age of 20 weeks--that is 5 months of pregnancy--from being killed by abortion. Five months into a pregnancy, babies are sucking their thumbs, they are yawning and stretching, they are actively moving around, they respond to noises, and they feel and respond to pain. The scientific evidence on this point is incontrovertible. Five months into a pregnancy, unborn babies feel pain. Their stress hormones spike, and they shrink from painful stimuli. In fact, some scientific evidence suggests that babies of this age feel pain more keenly than adults since some of the neural mechanisms that inhibit pain don't fully develop until after birth. Babies are regularly born weeks or months early in this country and with medical care survive and often thrive. A Time magazine article from May 2014 that highlighted the tremendous advances that have been made in the treatment of premature babies noted that 76 percent of babies born at 25 weeks of pregnancy--or about 6 months--will go on to leave the hospital. A May 2015 article of the New York Times entitled ``Premature Babies May Survive at 22 Weeks if Treated, Study Finds'' highlighted a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reporting on successes in treating extremely early premature births.…”