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  • Utah Senate passes anesthesia requirement for 20-week abortions

    03/12/2016 6:03:55 PM PST · by Morgana · 9 replies
    liveactionnews.org ^ | March 11, 2016 | Calvin Freiburger
    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...