The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (H.R. 6099) on the morning of Wednesday, December 6. Please immediately call and ask your U.S. representative to support this urgently-needed bill. Women considering abortion should have the right to know that that abortion, especially a late abortion, may cause great pain to the unborn child.

To find your U.S. Representative, click here http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us

 

SAMPLE MESSAGE

Please call by 4 p.m. (CST) on Tuesday, December 5.  

U.S. Capitol Switchboard -- 202-224-3121 -- ask to be transferred to your U.S. Representative.

Sample message (please use your own words):

Hello, my name is   (your name) . I live at  (your address) . Please ask  (your U.S. representative) to support H.R. 6099, the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. Thank you.

IMPORTANT: Please let us know you've made your call. Send us a comment at info@texasallianceforlife.org.

BACKGROUND

• The bill, sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), will be considered under a fast-track procedure ("suspension of the rules"), under which no amendments will be considered, and a two-thirds vote is required for passage.
• In a press release issued December 1, Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) said, "I encourage my colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act next week and if they do, I intend to seek unanimous consent that the Senate take up and pass this critical piece of legislation."
• This bill will save lives by requiring abortionists to tell women the truth about the pain unborn children feel during abortion. This bill would require every abortionist to provide, whenever a woman seeks an abortion past 20 weeks after fertilization, information about the capacity of her unborn child to experience pain during the abortion.  After that, the woman would either request or refuse (by signing a form) the administration of pain-reducing drugs directly to the unborn child.  The woman's decision regarding such drugs is entirely voluntary.  The bill would apply to all abortions past 20 weeks, regardless of the method used.
• The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act also contains a number of proposed congressional findings regarding the scientific evidence that unborn children would experience great pain during abortions by 20 weeks. The findings cite a number of existing federal laws that seek to diminish the suffering of animals, such as restrictions on how livestock are slaughtered and restrictions on the use of animals in medical research.
• In a Zogby poll conducted in April 2004, the public supported "laws requiring that women who are 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancy be given information about fetal pain before having an abortion" by a 77-16 percent margin.
• For more information from National Right to Life Committee, click -HERE-.

Save the Date -- Texas Rally for Life on Saturday, January 27, 2007, at the Texas Capitol in Austin

Don't miss the Texas Rally for Life on Saturday, January 27, 2007, at the State Capitol in Austin. Attend a pro-life event in your town the weekend before, and then join Texans from across the state at the Capitol to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the tragic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. Roe has claimed the lives of over 47,000,000 innocent unborn babies and has hurt thousands of women, physically and especially emotionally.

 

Speakers will feature Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life and Pastor Rick Scarborough of Vision America.

 

Participants will gather in Austin at Republic Square, 4th & Congress, at 1 p.m. for the march up Congress Avenue to the Capitol for the Rally from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. No graphic images please.

We have all heard a lot of bad news in the national media about the recent elections. Republicans have lost control of both houses of Congress -- the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. That is very bad news for pro-life bills. The party that controls Congress controls all of the committees. That means the leadership the Democratic Party, which is largely committed to a solidly pro-abortion agenda, can bury pro-life bills. Even more important, pro-life President Bush' next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court will have to be passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. That just became more difficult.

 

There is good news here in Texas. Pro-life Governor Rick Perry won handily, beating four other candidates. Perry is pro-life on abortion and stem cell research (he supports funding for adult stem cell research and opposes funding for embryonic stem cell research). So decisive was his win that the media hardly considered the victory a significant story. But Perry's win was no accident, and it was not easy. The pro-life vote, generated with the help of Texas Alliance for Life, gave Perry a strong margin of victory.  

 

Also, it is noteworthy that other pro-life statewide candidates won as well -- including Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Todd Staples for Agriculture Commissioner, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones, and others. Judicial conservatives were elected to the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Republicans retained control of the Texas House, and pro-life Speaker Tom Craddick will likely be re-elected for another term.

 

These wins show that candidates who supports the pro-life positions on abortion and stem cell research can strongly win.

 

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