Kansas Senator Jerry Moran voted recently to advance two pro-life bills he cosponsored that would help protect babies who survive abortions and limit abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, at which point unborn infants are capable of feeling pain. The “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” would require that babies who survive an abortion are provided the same medical care as any child born at the same gestational period. The “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” would limit abortions after 20 weeks gestation, at which point scientific data shows an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain. The United States is one of only seven countries that allows elective abortions after 18 weeks post-fertilization, joining Countries like China and North Korea. Despite bipartisan support, the bills failed to reach the 60 vote threshold needed to advance.
Senator Moran says the Senate had a chance to send a message showing who they are as leaders and as a society as a whole: one that protects the weak and the voiceless, instead of one that permits their destruction. He says they failed a fundamental test.
