[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 21, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H461]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
THE PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT
(Mr. CONAWAY asked and was given permission to address the House for
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, this House tomorrow will consider H.R. 36,
the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and I will support that
bill because it protects most of the children in these circumstances.
But I will do so with a heavy heart because it does not protect all
children. Every child at 20 weeks and older deserves protection from
the violence perpetrated on them in the womb by late-term abortions.
Mr. Speaker, this bill does not protect all children because it gives
an exception for children conceived in rape and incest. No child 20
weeks and older should be subjected to that, regardless of the
circumstances in which they are conceived.
Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to work to try to correct that
injustice as well, and I hope efforts are afoot to make this bill
perfect in the sense that it would protect every single child 20 weeks
and older because none of them deserve less.
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