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April 2018 – Despite strong public support, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act failed to pass the Senate on January 29, 2017, after its passage in the House of Representatives. Sixty Senate votes are required.

According to evangelical Christian leader Franklin Graham, more than a dozen of the 46 senators who voted against the bill call themselves Christians.

“[T]he Senate was nine votes short of saving a lot of lives,” he said. “But the vote finished at 51 for – 46 against the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks in the U.S. We remain among the worst seven countries in the world with these 20-week abortions. Pray for our lawmakers; and pray for our nation to turn to God.”

lifenews.com, 2/1/18