When I was in grad school for anesthesia in 2004, we had a lecture from a pediatric anesthesiologist who included in her slide presentation that EEG (brain waves) are present at 9 weeks of gestation and pain pathways from the spinal cord to brain are intact. After that I always considered this 20 weeks stuff to be bullcrap. Even Dr Nathanson’s video “the silent scream” from the early 80s showed a 12 week “fetus” screaming during an abortion. This ban after 20 weeks is I guess a start but really, it’s based on a falsehood and just lets some in the pro life movement pat themselves on the back.
Take every victory we can get. It means the people are slowly waking up.