The measure hinges on the unsubstantiated notion that a fetus at 20 weeks' gestation feels pain, despite an exhaustive scientific review saying that's simply not the case.
Carol Sanger, a professor of law at Columbia University and an expert in the proliferation of abortion restrictions, told Rewire that she was surprised by how the bill was handled in the Tennessee house. She has not seen lawmakers in other states proceed with such trepidation.
As a family doctor and abortion provider in Seattle, I take care of women from all walks of life, including many immigrant and refugee women in our community. A patient’s race or ethnicity should have no bearing on her ability to access health care or on a physician’s ability to provide quality and compassionate medical services.
The proposals include a bill to ban the donation of fetal tissue and a measure to extended the state’s forced waiting period from 24 hours to 72 hours for a pregnant person seeking abortion care.
Brett Baier's question about abortion came one day after CNN’s Democratic debate became the party’s seventh debate that failed to ask the candidates about their stances on abortion rights.