What it has to do with is the responsibility a mother has for her unborn child. If she has none the child’s pain is irrelevant. The ability to feel pain is a red herring. An amoeba moves away from pain. Every living organism feels pain at every stage of its life. The state has determined that a mother cannot be required to sustain a pregnancy. That is the central issue.
As long as the mother doesn’t feel the pain she could not be bothered with the child she does not want.
How many of these mothers are multiple murderers?
Abortion is used instead of Birth Control. Give a free sterilization to all who abort.
Tortuous Pain.
Drawing and Quartering behind closed doors, nothing more, nothing less.