An average of 27 late-term abortions happen every day in the United States; the bill to protect the unborn from this cruel pain was dramatically dropped by the GOP

An estimated 10,000 unborn babies are killed each year through late-term abortions. This averages out to 27.4 abortions taking place 20 weeks or later per day or 1.14 per hour, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act aims to prohibit the killing of unborn babies 20 or more weeks into the pregnancy at a federal level. Eleven states currently prohibit this form of abortion.

The Congressional Budget Office has become concerned with how much the act will cost the country, whether the baby is carried to full-term or aborted sooner.

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According to CNS News, the CBO expects three-quarters of the estimated abortions would happen before 20 weeks with the act in place, making only one-fourth of the babies not killed by an abortionist. An estimated 2,500 babies would be saved with this act.

Although they admit estimating the exact cost to the federal government in prohibiting late-term abortions is difficult to do, they state, the cost the saved babies would push on the federal government would be in the hundreds of millions.

"As a result, we estimate that the increase in federal costs for Medicaid would total $235 million over the 2015-2025 period," says CBO. "However, there is a wide range of uncertainty around that central estimate. CBO estimates that the budgetary effects on other programs would be negligible."

This would be an estimated $9,400 per each innocent life saved.

The last three words of that sentence should surpass the meaning or numbers added up by the Congressional Budget Office. "Innocent life saved" should mean more than any number.

The CBO continues on in their report to dissect the cost saving lives would bare on individual states. Each saved life will cost the state about $6,200, according to the CBO.

They did not estimate "at all what the nation would lose if the government allowed the deliberate killing of these 25,000 babies (saved babies over the period of ten years)," according to CNS News.

President Obama already has plans on vetoing the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act if it passes through Congress.

They suggest passing this act, "would unacceptably restrict women's health and reproductive rights and is an assault on a woman's right to choose" and is protected by the Supreme Court's interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

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At 20 weeks the fetus has developed gender-specific anatomy. The baby has began swallowing motions. The baby has started producing by-products of digestion. The baby feels and the baby will feel the pain of an abortion.

The cost of saving lives shouldn't matter; it wouldn't matter if the baby was outside the womb, why should its location change its importance.

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