Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement regarding the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing held this morning on Late-Term Abortion: Protecting Babies Born Alive and Capable of Feeling Pain :
“We are all grateful to Senator Lindsey Graham for introducing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and to Chairman Chuck Grassley for holding this informative hearing. The effort to bring attention to the important issue of how we can better protect babies born alive and their right under the U.S. Constitution to medical attention should never have become an issue for debate. It is haunting that the testimony at the hearing revealed that abortion advocates believe the right to terminate a pregnancy continues after the child has been delivered." said Chairman Blackburn. “One of our charges at the Select Investigative Panel is to specifically look into the business practices of organizations that perform second and third trimester abortions. Science tells us that these babies can feel pain and it is simply unconscionable that any organization would allow a child born alive to die - a position that was voiced during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning."
Chairman Blackburn has led the effort in the House with companion legislation she authored with Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) to protect women and babies from dangerous late-term abortions. H.R. 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, was approved by the House on May 13, 2015.
