Of course the bill was defeated. California is run by Democrats; you know, the "Party of Death" to little children in the womb.

Even though the polls show that the American people want women to know of fetal pain, Democratic legislators just do not care what the American people want.

Better to ignore the public and cause excruciating pain in children than to upset their benefactors, the Abortion Industry and the Hollywood Filth Industry.

Just how cruel can the Democratic Party get? It isn't just supporting the killing of unborn children, but to not want them to have an anesthetic when they are torn apart in late term is as cruel as one can get. An anesthetic is given to animals when they are killed in late term.

This is why I left the Democratic Party years ago. It has no shame. All other issues lumped together are still not as important as saving the lives of these little innocent children. 4,000 killed every day, 1.3 million every year. It's enough to make you cry, unless, of course, you are a Democrat.

Frank Joseph MD

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California Cmte Defeats Bill Telling Women of Babies' Abortion Pain

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor

April 27, 2006

Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- California lawmakers on Tuesday defeated legislation that would have informed women considering an abortion that babies feel intense pain during the abortion procedure. The measure would have also provided women with the option of giving the baby anesthesia beforehand to lessen the pain.

Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, a Republican, presented her bill (AB 2512) to the Assembly Health Committee which, after a heated discussion, defeated the measure.

"It's quite simply the humane thing to do," Runner said about her bill, according to the California Chronicle. "I can't understand why our government provides more protection to animals than to humans."

Dubbed the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, the bill is modeled after legislation that has been considered by other states and in Congress.
It would give the information about fetal pain to women considering an abortion who are more than 20 weeks into the pregnancy. The bill creates a prepared statement the abortion practitioner would give the woman.
"Rapists and murderers on death row are given several times the amount of barbiturates and anesthesia given to patients getting heart surgery," Runner said. "I can't understand why unborn children are given nothing."

Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand of the University of Arkansas Medical Center says he and other specialists in development of unborn children have shown that babies feel pain before birth as early as 20 weeks into the pregnancy.

Anand has said other medical studies conclude that unborn babies are "very likely" to be "extremely sensitive to pain during the gestation of 20 to 30 weeks."

An April 2004 Zogby poll shows that 77% of Americans back "laws requiring that women who are 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancy be given information about fetal pain before having an abortion."

Only 16 percent disagreed with such a proposal, according to the poll.
Pro-life groups, including the California Pro-Life Council, supported Runner's legislation. CPLC said abortion practitioners should be required to "offer pregnant woman information and counseling on fetal pain."




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