Legislation
“20-week abortion bans” are based on the unfounded assertion that, after that time, fetuses can experience this sensation
What is pain?
The time it takes for a fetus to develop the brain circuitry required for children and adults to feel pain
What is 24 weeks?
At this point, Christians consider life to have begun
What is conception?
This pain-numbing drug is required by some states during abortion for the fetus’s protection, but not during births or fetal surgery
What is anesthesia?
This is one of the many reasons that mothers are given painkillers/anesthesia
What is maternal pain, immobilizes the fetus, relaxes the uterus, or blocks harmful effects of the fetus’s hormonal stress response?
Only need to state one
The percentage of premature babies born at 22 weeks that will survive
What is 25%?
The National Right to Life supports these abortion polices
What is fetal pain policies?
In 1973, the Supreme Court upheld the right to abortion but held that states could independently prohibit abortion after this point, after which a fetus may sustain life outside the womb
What is fetal viability?
A chemical environment is responsible for a fetus remaining in this mental state throughout the pregnancy
What is unconsciousness?
Pro-Life supporters believe that as society protects this group of organisms, they should do the same for unborn babies
What are animals?
People in this state are required to take painkillers or anesthesia during their abortion for the comfort of the fetus
What is Utah?
Evidence shows a fetus could feel pain after this amount of time in gestation
What is 27 weeks?
This type of abortion is most common later stages of the pregnancy, resulting in “the violent dismemberment of the unborn baby”
What is dilation and evacuation?
This bill, proposed by the National Right to Life, restricts abortion after 20 weeks fetal age
What is the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act?
The latest of any state, it is the only one to allow freedom of choice concerning abortion until 25 weeks gestational age, the beginning of the third trimester
What is Virginia?
The percentage of abortions that occur before 21 weeks
What is 98.8%?
A common argument against abortion rights is the obligation to protect this general subset of society
What is the most vulnerable?