{"id":2967,"date":"2011-04-21T01:21:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2013-12-28T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T16:33:29","slug":"reticent-to-challenge-fetal-pain-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/reticent-to-challenge-fetal-pain-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion industry appears reticent to challenge fetal pain laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1039 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Scales\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/30772_391886891485_577546485_4589174_8237573_n-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jillstanek.com\/2011\/04\/jivin-js-life-links-4-20-11\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jivin J over at JillStanek.com writes<\/a>:<strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0411\/53432.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has an article on the reason why pro-choice organizations aren\u2019t challenging fetal pain laws banning abortion after 20 weeks:<em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Republican legislatures across the country are passing tough new anti-abortion laws \u2013 and while abortion rights advocates believe the new laws are unconstitutional, they\u2019re not rushing to court to stop them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The reason: There\u2019s a decent chance they\u2019d lose\u2026.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The Center for Reproductive Rights, a stalwart defender of abortion rights, says that the law ranks lower down in its priorities since it only regulates a small number of procedures that occur later in the pregnancy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Strange, <a href=\"http:\/\/reproductiverights.org\/en\/document\/the-federal-abortion-ban-supreme-court-hearing-for-gonzales-v-carhart-faq\" target=\"_blank\">they didn\u2019t have that problem<\/a> when it came to partial-birth abortion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jivin J over at JillStanek.com writes: Politico has an article on the reason why pro-choice organizations aren\u2019t challenging fetal pain laws banning abortion after 20 weeks: Republican legislatures across the country are passing tough new anti-abortion laws \u2013 and while abortion rights advocates believe the new laws are unconstitutional, they\u2019re not rushing to court to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[165,632],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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