Curbing late-term abortions in the nation's capital

The Weekly Standard blog covered prolife efforts to pass the D.C. Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The Act would ban abortions past 20 weeks based on evidence that unborn children can feel pain at that point, and what could be more painful than an abortion?

The Washington Surgi-Clinic, located just five blocks west of the White House, advertises on its website that it performs abortions 26 weeks (6 months) into pregnancy. The website of another clinic advertises second- and third-trimester abortions involving the “intercardiac injection of medication into the fetal heart” at a “private facility in the Washington, D.C. area.” All of this is perfectly legal.

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