In other words

Pro-abortion activists have done unbelievable gymnastics for more than the past three decades to avoid calling human life…..well, human life. Under the language ingrained in the culture of the ‘pro-choice’ movement, activists have agitated for every form of protection for abortionists and they’ve fought against every protection for the actual women and their unborn children.

That fact was at the epicenter of the human life protection law in South Dakota, otherwise known as the abortion ban bill. Click on ‘abortion’ over on the right for the details. I’ve covered that whole story as it evolved and it’s pretty much all there.

Now look at this. Legislators are crafting other creative ways to protect women and their children, and it has come down to this fundamental reality. It’s as basic as this.

Unborn Children Feel Pain Too

I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to pass H.R. 6099, the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act.

This much-needed legislation would require that women considering an abortion be informed of the pain their unborn child would feel during the procedure, and then offer those women still considering the procedure the option of giving the unborn child anesthesia.

Medical evidence suggests an unborn child can feel pain at 20 weeks, if not earlier.

As such, it is our responsibility as legislators to see women throughout America are informed of the intense pain experienced by their unborn child during an abortion and offer them an option to ease their child’s pain.

That was posted yesterday by Fla. GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen on a Congress blog I watch. It sounds surreal, doesn’t it? Offer to ease the pain of an unborn child while it’s being killed. But the real wisdom at the core of this Act is its grounding on information for the woman, which is how South Dakota began. Crisis pregnancy centers there asked for a law that would require the same informed consent that every other medical procedure requires, so women could make a real informed ‘choice.’ They got that legislation in HB 1166, the informed consent bill, last year. Planned Parenthood immediately went to court for injunctive relief, which they got.

With the pro-abortion movement fighting every effort to give women fundamental information, how can they say it’s all about ‘choice’?