Lifenews reports that Senator Brownback (R- KS) has said he will reintroduce, in the next session of congress, legislation that focuses on fetal pain.

The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (S.2466) is careful not to go into the realm of speculation, no further than anything made absolutely certain by science, but it requires doctors and those performing abortions on women further than twenty weeks to make them aware that:

The Congress of the United States has determined that at this stage of development, an unborn child has the physical structures necessary to experience pain. There is substantial evidence that by this point, unborn children draw away from surgical instruments in a manner which in an infant or an adult would be interpreted as a response to pain. Congress finds that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain, even though you receive a pain-reducing drug or drugs.

They are also to offer them the option of having anesthesia or other pain-reducing drugs administered directly to the child before the abortion takes place.

Many doctors have said they believe an unborn child is capable of feeling cruel, excruciating and horrific pain during late term abortion procedures, and according to an April Zogby poll, 77 % of Americans favor “laws requiring that women who are 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancy be given information about fetal pain before having an abortion.”