Protecting pain-capable unborn children

At the web site Public Discourse, Teresa Collett discusses legislation to prohibit abortions on unborn children who have the ability to feel pain. She replies to common objections to fetal pain legislation including claims that unborn children can't feel pain and is it unconstitutional to protect unborn children from pain.

The United States Congress and the state legislatures of Michigan and New Hampshire are considering Pain-Capable Child Protection Acts. These acts would prohibit almost all abortions at twenty weeks post-fertilization and beyond. Five states—Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Idaho—already have such laws on the books. These laws are premised on the idea that an unborn child's capacity to feel pain, independent of fetal viability, is sufficient to establish the humanity of the child and to sustain a limited prohibition on abortion. Like partial-birth abortion bans, these laws advance public recognition of the unborn child's humanity and should be supported.

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INFORMATION ON LEGISLATION IN MICHIGAN TO PROTECT PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILDREN