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- Title
Abortion Bans Premised on Fetal Pain Capacity.
- Authors
Wilson, Katie
- Abstract
Abortion bans premised on fetal pain capacity are this decade's 'partial-birth abortion': a medically suspect anti-choice initiative that can be politically difficult to oppose. No one is 'pro-fetal pain.' But rhetorically, the concept of 'fetal pain' works to conflate the capacity for pain with the experience of pain. If pain justified banning medical procedures, all surgery would be illegal. Pain is a routine side effect of medical practice. What's unethical is unnecessary pain, and that's why the standard medical response to pain is palliation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ABORTION laws; HEALTH policy; PAIN
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2012, Vol 42, Issue 5, p10
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hast.78