{"id":238862,"date":"2021-01-28T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=238862"},"modified":"2021-01-27T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:35:32","slug":"florida-pain-capable-late-term-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/florida-pain-capable-late-term-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida legislators introduce bill to protect pain-capable children from late-term abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two Florida legislators have introduced a bill to ban late-term abortions on pain-capable preborn children. The Florida Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act was introduced jointly by Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez and Rep. Tommy Gregory, and would prohibit abortion after about five months, based on the scientifically-based assertion that babies can feel pain after 20 weeks gestation. While it is widely accepted that preborn children can feel pain at later gestational ages, more recent scientific studies have noted they, in fact, are capable of feeling pain much<\/em> earlier than this.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an obligation to be the voice of the unborn, who are too often not valued as individuals with the right to chart their own life,\u201d said Rodriguez<\/a>. \u201cIt is vital that the state of Florida takes action to protect these innocent lives.”<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, the bill is already facing opposition. \u201cTime and time again, we see our Republican colleagues attempt to restrict access to safe and legal abortion, judge and stigmatize women who make this decision and get in between a woman, her family, her doctor, and her faith,\u201d Rep. Anna Eskamani said<\/a>.<\/p>\n