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Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (SB 127)

The House Committee on Community and Family Advancement heard proponent testimony on Ohio Right to Life's Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (SB 127) and legislation to de-fund Planned Parenthood (HB 294). Medical experts Dr. Gary George and Dr. Sheila Page testified that pre-born babies can feel pain by 20 weeks gestation. Anna Higgins, associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, provided legal expertise on the subject, arguing that the legislation is both constitutional and reasonable in light of international norms for abortion legislation.

"Across the last four decades, 
Roe's viability standard has become increasingly unworkable due to improving standards for neonatal care, as well as our knowledge of a child's life before birth," said Stephanie Ranade Krider, executive director of Ohio Right to Life. "We know that pain receptors begin to develop as early as six to seven weeks gestation, and that babies can respond to touch at just eight weeks gestation—months before the 20 week line that we are currently asking this legislature to draw. Our society bears a grave responsibility to respond to this knowledge with empathy and compassion for the unborn."
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"Planned Parenthood has brought Americans up close and personal with the pain they impose on unborn babies," said Krider. "As Planned Parenthood officials discuss how to 'crush' a child's body to properly preserve her brains and heart for trading purposes, our human decency demands that we stop the crushing. Some will say that it’s not our place—that the legislature cannot insert itself into the doctor’s office. Yet de-funding Planned Parenthood would achieve precisely the opposite result: It would extract the government and pro-lifers like myself from the abortion office."
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Greater Toledo Right to Life
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  • Home
    • Mission
    • Membership
    • Contact Us
    • Call to Action!
    • E-news Registration
    • CLOSE Capital Care Network
    • DeWine Rescission of Champion of Life Award
  • Legislation
    • Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
    • Did you Know - Ohio
    • Assisted Suicide Advances
    • Ohio CAN Defund Planned Parenthood >
      • District Court Upheld Ohio's Defunding Planned Parenthood Law
    • Ban on U.S. Aid to Abortion Providers
    • GTRTL Impact on Law
  • Right to Life Action Coalition
    • 2020 Endorsements in Ohio
  • Voting Info
    • Voting Info
    • 4 GUIDING PRINCIPLES TO BECOME A BIBLICAL VOTER
  • Facts of LIFE
    • Video Resources
  • Legislative Briefing Breakfast
  • News
    • Rogue Radio: Post Election Edition - Nov 10, 2020
    • WLMB Interview: OCTOBER 8, 2020
    • Telemed
    • From the Whitehouse
    • 3/4 of Aborted Baby Left Inside
    • Infanticide: Never Acceptable
  • Christian Worldview of the Political Issues of our Day: Life-Family-Religious Liberty
  • Biblical Principles for Pro-Life Engagement