CEDARVILLE STUDENTS COLLECT SIGNATURES URGING SENATOR BROWN’S SUPPORT ON UNBORN CHILD PAIN AWARENESS ACT

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Tuesday, March 6, 2007

CEDARVILLE STUDENTS COLLECT SIGNATURES URGING SENATOR BROWN’S SUPPORT ON UNBORN CHILD PAIN AWARENESS ACT

CEDARVILLE -- Students for Life of Cedarville University have already acquired more than 1,000 student signatures and counting in support of a petition to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, requesting his support for the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act which requires a woman seeking an abortion after the 20th week be told by a physician the pain her unborn child will experience and be given the option of having pain reducing drugs administered to the child.

“We are deeply concerned about the excruciating pain that tens of thousands of unborn children are subjected to every year through abortion. Women have the right to receive full information about the pain their child will experience; it is unconscionable that this is often withheld,” said Murray Vasser, President of Cedarville Students for Life.

Senate Bill 356 was introduced by U.S. Senator Sam Brownback and is strongly opposed by the National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood, and the ACLU. The Act acknowledges that an unborn child can feel and even experienced heightened pain. “Consider the D&E abortion. During this procedure, commonly performed after 20-weeks -- when there is medical evidence that the child can experience severe pain -- the child is torn apart limb from limb. Think about how that must feel to a young human. We would never allow a dog to be treated this way. Yet, the creature we are talking about is a young, unborn child," said Senator Brownback.

The full text of the petition can be found on the Cedarville Students for Life website: http://people.cedarville.edu/stuorg/studentsforlife/

For more information please contact Murray Vasser at (937) 605-4017 or studentsforlife@cedarville.edu

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