This is a step in the right direction. Now let’s build on this like the left does and work to get the amendment back into the next bill. It’s not the baby’s fault mom didn’t report a rape on a certain time.
This is a step in the right direction. Now let’s build on this like the left does and work to get the amendment back into the next bill. It’s not the baby’s fault mom didn’t report a rape on a certain time.
Well, it’s a start.
There is no reason to think that the baby suddenly becomes able to feel pain at 20 weeks, but not at 19 weeks and 6 days. That isn’t how the nervous system works. Cells that differentiate to have a specific function begin to perform that function as soon as they differentiate. The nervous system is one of the earliest systems to form, taking shape between 2 and 5 weeks after conception. After that, it is a matter of growth and refinement. There is every reason to think that babies become able to feel pain sometime during that 3 week period when the brain and nervous system actually form.
Hopefully, this “pain-capable” bill will help the science of pregnancy begin to have more of an impact on policy—it is not scientifically accurate, but it is a move in that direction.
Immoral, unconstitutional legislation.
“Don’t worry, they won’t feel a thing,” is no substitute for “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL men are CREATED equal, endowed by their Creator with certain UNALIENABLE rights...”