It was painful to watch just how beholden the Left is to the abortion mentality as the Senate voted yesterday evening 51-46 against sending the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36, S. 2311) to the floor for a vote (60 votes were needed for it to proceed). The Pain bill would ban abortions after five months, when research shows an unborn child is capable of feeling pain. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) broke rank with their Republican colleagues and voted against the motion. Senators Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) were the only three Democrats to cast affirmative votes.
The bill, which was introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-N.C.), includes exceptions for cases of rape, incest, and when the health of the mother is at risk, and passed the House last October by a vote of 237-189. The Senate’s failure to pass the bill keeps the United States in league with only seven other nations in the world, including China, North Korea, and Vietnam, that perform elective abortions after five months. This is the second time the bill has been killed in the Senate, having failed previously in 2015. At the state level, 18 states have passed their own versions of the pain-capable bill to protect unborn children after the 5th month of pregnancy.
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