AP – This photo taken on June 2, 2009 shows Dr. LeRoy Carhart. Dr. Carhart, whose Bellevue, Neb., clinic offers
Nebraska, U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns, is pushing for dialogue that includes this issue of fetal pain.
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The Nebraska law that takes effect Friday bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on the idea of fetal pain, a departure from the standard of viability — when the fetus could survive outside the womb, generally considered to be between 22 and 24 weeks — established by the 1973 landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade.
Legislation recently reintroduced by Johanns doesn't go that far. It would require women seeking abortions after 20 weeks to be told the fetus could feel pain and allow them to request anesthesia for the fetus. The measure was first proposed by Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback in 2004 and has been reintroduced every year since.
"How does anybody — pro-life or pro-choice — oppose this?" asked Johanns, a Republican. "If the baby feels pain ... then it is an issue of human compassion."
Of course, the other side is claiming it's just junk science. The same people, I'm sure, who believe wholeheartedly in global warming.
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