House Re-Introduces Pain-Capable Abortion Bill

The new Republican-controlled Congress is wasting no time to advance the GOP's pro-life stand.

House Republicans passed the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the last session of Congress. But then Senate Democrats blocked it.

Now with Republicans in charge, two lawmakers have re-introduced the bill. It would ban abortions after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., is one of the bill's sponsors.

He says the law would protect "innocent, defenseless children who can not only feel pain and can survive outside of the womb in most cases, but are torturously killed without even basic anesthesia."