[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 24, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S498]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



               Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Bill

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, last week Americans from all across the 
country--including many from Kentucky--came here to Washington to speak 
up for unborn children whom our legal system has denied the right to 
life. Now Congress has an opportunity to take a step forward.

  The United States is currently one of just seven countries--just 
seven--including China and North Korea, that permits elective abortions 
after 20 weeks. It is time we began to remedy this obvious and tragic 
moral wrong. The long-overdue legislation that we will be voting on 
soon would do just that.
  I am pleased to have filed cloture on this bill to protect unborn 
children who are capable of feeling pain. I am proud to cosponsor it, 
along with many of my colleagues, and I look forward to voting for it 
early next week.

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