{"id":251214,"date":"2021-08-17T18:41:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=251214"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T21:44:55","slug":"restricting-abortion-15-weeks-save-tens-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/restricting-abortion-15-weeks-save-tens-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Restricting abortion after 15 weeks could save tens of thousands of preborn babies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A restriction on abortions after\u00a015 weeks gestation<\/a> could save tens of thousands of preborn babies annually, according to various data reviewed by Live Action News. This analysis comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to hear a Mississippi case later this year to determine whether the state can prohibit<\/a> “previable” abortions at 15 weeks or later.\u00a0The case, brought by Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, is known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>. Jackson Women’s Health is an abortion business in the state.<\/p>\n

At 14 weeks<\/a>\u00a0after fertilization (16 weeks gestation),\u00a0a preborn child can play in the womb and her lips and nose are fully formed, she makes complex facial expressions, and her mother may begin to feel her movements. By 15 weeks post-fertilization (17 weeks gestation), an ultrasound can detect speaking movements in the preborn child’s voice box, and her teeth are beginning to grow.<\/p>\n

According to recent studies, preborn babies likely feel pain by the end<\/a> of the first trimester, if not before<\/a>.<\/p>\n