Posted on 03/12/2016 6:03:55 PM PST by Morgana
On Monday, the Utah State Senate voted 20-3 to pass legislation requiring any abortion past 20 weeks of pregnancy to include anesthesia for the preborn baby.
The bill, SB 234, is based on a body of medical research strongly indicating that preborn children are capable of feeling pain around 20 weeks. Current law only requires abortionists to inform women of fetal pain and offer anesthesia as an option.
It contains one amendment waiving the requirement in cases of the mother’s health (a standard pro-lifers fear is too broad under the Supreme Court’s definition of health, and could theoretically exempt any abortion) and cases where the baby is not expected survive outside the womb if carried to term.
Federal pro-life legislative efforts and many state efforts prefer to ban abortion outright at 20 weeks, but bill sponsor Sen. Curt Bramble maintains that this measure is the most feasible at the moment: “If we could prohibit all abortions except in the rarest of circumstances, if we could overturn Roe v. Wade, I would be a proud sponsor of that bill.”
Despite the fact that the bill does nothing to prevent late-term abortions, Planned Parenthood of Utah still protested it outside the Senate, brandishing signs calling on lawmakers to “Keep Politics Out of the Exam Room” and declaring “Senator Bramble Is NOT My Doctor.”
SB 234 now moves on to the state House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a 63-12 majority. Governor Gary Herbert has suggested he is open to signing the bill.
Good grief,this is the best they can offer?How about a flat-out ban on 20 week abortions,just for starters.
I wonder how common this kind of law is????
Does the anesthesia taint the corpse to render it unsellable?
Agree... But that law wouldn’t last for a day....
“Does the anesthesia taint the corpse to render it unsellable?”
Might affect the taste.
You hit the nail on the head here.
No one on that side of the “debate” will have any other qualms but what you just stated.
The sickening part is that pain is being acknowledged, but the status of life isn’t.
This is pathetic.
You’re correct. My thought is that the left wins by incrementalism. That will probably have to be the way back out of this.
Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics a very pro life group, no exceptions, said something that I thought was profound and has stuck with me.
(Paraphrasing) Talking about partial birth abortion and other so called anti abortion laws or restrictions he said something like... his test for these types of laws is that he can’t support them if after the requirements of these laws have been met, you can say “and THEN you kill the baby”.
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