The U.S. House is scheduled to take up the “Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act” tomorrow morning on the floor.  Under the special rules being used to move the legislation forward in the lame duck Congress, a two-thirds vote will be necessary to pass the bill.  It is sponsored in the House by Rep. Chris Smith.

The bill would require abortionists to tell women undergoing abortion after 20 weeks’ gestation that the procedure is likely to produce severe pain for the baby.

That is something of an understatement.  At this late point in a pregnancy, babies are reaching viability – that is, they are capable of surviving outside the womb.  And the killing techniques used by abortionists after the fifth month are unbelievably barbaric:

There is the Partial Birth Abortion method – in which a baby’s brains are sucked out of her head.  Or there is technique in which a baby is literally pulled-apart, limb by tiny limb, until all his parts are reassembled on the operating table.

Some abortionists prefer to kill the baby by basting him in saline solution – producing slow chemical burning; then they pull the dead infant from the womb.

Still others – like Kansas’ George Tiller – like the approach of injecting the baby’s heart with a poisonous drug in order to kill her.  Then he can cleanly induce labor, pulling the baby from the womb.  (Tiller has even added the sensitive service of burning the remains in his on-site crematorium).

I hate reviewing these matters for you – but it is sometimes necessary to get at the sordid truth of abortion in this nation.

It seems unlikely that the Congress will find the will to enact this legislation – but the GOP leadership of the Congress should be commended for scheduling the bill for floor action.  The debate certainly will focus a spotlight on the horrors occurring every day in most cities across this nation.