Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Nebraska bans abortions after 20 weeks

Nebraska is the first state to limit the time a women can receive an abortion based on a theory of when a fetus can feel pain. The law would ban any abortions at or after 20 weeks, except for extreme cases. The original law set the restriction on the ability for the fetus to live outside the womb, which was on average determined to be about 22 weeks. Read more here!

"If some of these other anti-abortion bills have been chipping away at Roe v. Wade, this takes an ax to it"

~Ashley

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