Fetal Pain, Abortion, Viability, and the Constitution

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 39 (2):235-242 (2011)
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Abstract

In early 2010, the Nebraska state legislature passed a new abortion restricting law asserting a new, compelling state interest in preventing fetal pain. In this article, we review existing constitutional abortion doctrine and note difficulties presented by persistent legal attention to a socially derived viability construct. We then offer a substantive biological, ethical, and legal critique of the new fetal pain rationale

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