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Doctors urge court to consider fetal pain in Ariz. abortion law
By Michelle Bauman
Source: Doctors urge court to consider fetal pain in Ariz. abortion law :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)


Washington D.C., Oct 17, 2012 / 02:06 am (CNA).- A group of doctors called on an appeals court to consider the ability of a fetus to feel pain in examining an Arizona law preventing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

“Hormonal, behavioral, and physiologic evidence supports the legislature’s conclusion that a fetus at twenty weeks gestation feels pain,” read the amicus brief, filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

It argued that the state has an established interest in eliminating or reducing “activities that provoke pain.”