https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/cardinal-urges-passage-pain-capable-unborn-child-protection-act#c-3008691
MGB:_The question of pain is not new. There are still doctors will not treat pain in newborns because they will have no memory of it. Being an infant is like being in an alcoholic blackout, there are no memories. Of course, no aborted fetus will live to have memories either nor, experts assure us, do they feel pain as we experience it. Still, they do react to it starting at week 20, although seemingly not before. Unless the Cardinal wants to assert that this means that all abortions before week 20 are morally licit, the only demands he can make are that after week 20, only induction abortions should be available,, including at Catholic hospitals (so that worse forms are not used in clinics) or that the fetus be sedated after that point. Either way, the forum for such discussions must be Congress, and because the House is so hyper-partisan, the Senate Judiciary Committee. Then we know the effort is real and not some talking horse to see if Trump appointees will overturn Roe.
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