AL SR109

Senate resolution condemning Alabama's junior senator for voting against the federal Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36), which would have banned abortions for unborn children capable of feeling pain beginning at 20 weeks fetal age.

States that the senator previously told Alabama voters he supported restricting late-term procedures except in cases of medical necessity, contradicting his vote against the bill.

Alleges pro-abortion groups from outside Alabama funneled financial support into the senator's campaign to influence his position on abortion.

Notes the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act was modeled after similar state bills that passed with overwhelming margins, including a comparable Alabama bill, and that polling shows an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose late-term abortions.

Calls on the senator to cast future votes protecting innocent human life from conception until natural death, stating his vote contradicts the values of Alabama as a strongly pro-life state.