Three Bills Renew Senate Clash Over Abortion -- fetuses feel pain
by Lisa Ashkenaz Croke (bio) NewStandard Staff contributed to this piece.
"....[One] bill would require abortion providers to offer women who are more than twenty weeks pregnant "pain-reducing drugs" for the "unborn child." The provider would be required present a scripted statement informing the patient that the Congress "has determined that at this stage of development, an unborn child has the physical structures necessary to experience pain" and requires "the woman to explicitly either request or refuse the administration of pain-reducing drugs to the unborn child" on a decision form to be kept on record for an as yet undetermined period.
Anesthesia is used on prenatal patients undergoing surgery. Brownback's bill argues this protocol is evidence that "certain stimuli" cause a physical reaction in fetuses – responses that should be construed as experiencing pain...."
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1444
"....[One] bill would require abortion providers to offer women who are more than twenty weeks pregnant "pain-reducing drugs" for the "unborn child." The provider would be required present a scripted statement informing the patient that the Congress "has determined that at this stage of development, an unborn child has the physical structures necessary to experience pain" and requires "the woman to explicitly either request or refuse the administration of pain-reducing drugs to the unborn child" on a decision form to be kept on record for an as yet undetermined period.
Anesthesia is used on prenatal patients undergoing surgery. Brownback's bill argues this protocol is evidence that "certain stimuli" cause a physical reaction in fetuses – responses that should be construed as experiencing pain...."
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1444
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