{"id":66160,"date":"2015-07-09T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=66160"},"modified":"2015-07-09T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T18:40:47","slug":"20-week-abortion-ban-expected-to-pass-wi-assembly-become-law-soon-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/20-week-abortion-ban-expected-to-pass-wi-assembly-become-law-soon-after\/","title":{"rendered":"20-week abortion ban expected to pass WI Assembly, become law soon after"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wisconsin.jpg\" alt=\"wisconsin\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/>The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/assembly-expected-to-pass-bill-banning-abortion-after-20-weeks-today-b99534427z1-312857591.html\">reports<\/a> that the Wisconsin State Assembly is expected to both consider and pass the state\u2019s 20-week abortion ban today.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would punish abortionists who perform abortions after 20 weeks with as much as 3 \u00bd years in prison and a $10,000 fine, making an exception only for abortions done to save the mother\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/wisconsin-senate-leader-says-walker-specifically-wanted-no-exceptions-20-week-abortion-ban\/\">previously reported<\/a>, the bill was passed by the state Senate early last month, and Governor Scott Walker has already said he will sign it into law.<\/p>\n<p>If the bill is enacted, the Journal notes that Wisconsin will become the fifteenth state to prohibit abortion after 20 weeks. Wisconsin\u2019s pro-abortion lobby is likely to challenge the law in court, as they did in the past with the state\u2019s abortionist admitting privileges requirement.<\/p>\n<p>The push to ban abortion at 20 weeks is based largely on preborn babies\u2019 ability to feel pain by then. Though a controversial assertion abortion defenders vehemently deny, fetal pain at 20 weeks <a href=\"\/news\/how-the-media-promotes-junk-science-on-fetal-pain\/\">is supported<\/a> by mainstream medical authorities such as the New England Journal of Medicine, which says that pain sensory receptors spread to \u201call cutaneous [skin] and mucous surfaces\u201d by 18 weeks, and Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, which says that \u201cpain transmission from a peripheral [pain] receptor to the cortex is possible\u201d by 14 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that the Wisconsin State Assembly is expected to both consider and pass the state\u2019s 20-week abortion ban today. The legislation would punish abortionists who perform abortions after 20 weeks with as much as 3 \u00bd years in prison and a $10,000 fine, making an exception only for abortions done to save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[1851,19,473,3059,31,1118,995,687],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>20-week abortion ban expected to pass WI Assembly, become law soon after - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The legislation would punish those who perform abortions after 20 wks w up to 3 \u00bd years in prison &amp; a $10k fine, making only a life-of-mother exception.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/20-week-abortion-ban-expected-to-pass-wi-assembly-become-law-soon-after\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"20-week abortion ban expected to pass WI Assembly, become law soon after - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The legislation would punish those who perform abortions after 20 wks w up to 3 \u00bd years in prison &amp; 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