{"id":366,"date":"2004-09-03T15:32:03","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=366"},"modified":"2004-09-03T15:32:03","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T19:32:03","slug":"pro-life-group-partial-birth-abortion-decision-shows-need-for-fetal-pain-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/pro-life-group-partial-birth-abortion-decision-shows-need-for-fetal-pain-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Life Group: Partial-Birth Abortion Decision Shows Need for Fetal Pain Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Unborn children feel pain during the abortion.<\/em><br \/>\nSteven Ertelt<br \/>\nSeptember 2, 2004<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) &#8212; A leading pro-life organization says that the recent decision by a federal judge in New York calling the ban on partial-birth abortions unconstitutional points to the need for a bill to help women considering abortion understand the pain such abortions cause unborn children.<\/p>\n<p>The National Right to Life Committee sent a letter to members of Congress on Wednesday urging them to support the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (H.R. 4420).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[E]very day in the United States unborn children are subjected to trauma that causes them excruciating pain, and that would be illegal if inflicted on animals in commerce or research,&#8221; the letter says.<\/p>\n<p>When a woman is considering an abortion &#8220;20 weeks after fertilization,&#8221; abortion practitioners are required to provide women with information about the pain an unborn child experiences during an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The woman can then request that the unborn child be given pain medication prior to the abortion, the letter explains.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/nat781.html\">LifeNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unborn children feel pain during the abortion. Steven Ertelt September 2, 2004 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) &#8212; A leading pro-life organization says that the recent decision by a federal judge in New York calling the ban on partial-birth abortions unconstitutional points to the need for a bill to help women considering abortion understand the pain such &#8230; <a title=\"Pro-Life Group: Partial-Birth Abortion Decision Shows Need for Fetal Pain Bill\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/pro-life-group-partial-birth-abortion-decision-shows-need-for-fetal-pain-bill\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pro-Life Group: Partial-Birth Abortion Decision Shows Need for Fetal Pain Bill\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sanctity-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}