By Corrie MacLaggan
AUSTIN, Texas |
Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:55pm EST
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry called on state lawmakers on Tuesday to pass a check banning late-term abortions, a argumentative breach that has been pushed by anti-abortion activists given 2010.
Seven states – Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska and Oklahoma – have put laws into outcome in a past several years banning late tenure abortions, formed on controversial medical investigate suggesting that a fetus feels pain starting during 20 weeks of gestation.
Another state, Georgia, has such a law scheduled to go into outcome in January, nonetheless a lawsuit over a magnitude is tentative in state court. Arizona also upheld a identical law banning abortions 18 weeks after fertilization, though it has been blocked by sovereign courts.
Texas would be a largest state to pass such a measure, nonetheless Perry, a Republican, did not outline sum of what he envisioned in a bill.
“We cannot, and we will not, mount idly by while a unborn are going by a anguish of carrying their lives ended,” Perry, a unsuccessful 2012 Republican presidential candidate, pronounced in prepared remarks for a news discussion on Tuesday.
Opponents of such proposals contend they are formed on ungrounded science.
“And nonetheless we see these bills proliferating opposite a country,” pronounced Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for a Guttmacher Institute, a investigate organisation that supports termination rights. “It looks like this emanate is one that state legislatures are going to be wrestling with for another year.”
Arkansas, Virginia, Wisconsin and South Dakota are also approaching to deliver such bills, Nash said.
The position of a American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is that there is “no legitimate systematic information that supports a matter that a fetus practice pain.”
The organisation records that certain mind and neurological developments, including neurotransmitted hormones, have to be in place to understand pain. Animal studies uncover these hormones are grown usually in a final third of gestation.
Some anti-abortion arguments on fetal pain are taken from investigate by Kanwaljeet J.S. Anand, a highbrow of pediatrics, anesthesiology, anatomy and neurobiology during a University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Anand has pronounced that prenatal surgeries are customarily finished with anesthetic, and that notwithstanding ACOG’s 2005 statement, “the accord opinion seems to be in preference of a fact that fetuses do understand pain.”
In Texas, a Legislature convenes in Jan with Republican majorities in both chambers. In 2011, Perry successfully pushed a magnitude requiring women seeking an termination to initial get a sonogram.
(Editing by Paul Thomasch and Christopher Wilson)
Source: Health Medicine Network