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...Finally, the value of protecting a fetus from possible pain will in practice be balanced against the cost to the woman. A great many abortion providers would probably not be trained, equipped or insured to provide the kind of anesthesia the law gives women to right to demand. While it may reduce a fetus' pain, it also increases the woman's risk. Some women who might not be able to afford the added cost would be left only with the added guilt...
...doctors to warn of a heightened risk of breast cancer linked to abortion, despite something like a medical consensus that this link has not been proven. In this case there is dispute among researchers about when a fetus's nervous system and brain are mature enough to allow for pain, with some saying this occurs around 26 weeks, not the 20 weeks the bill stipulates. (An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested pain was unlikely before 29 weeks; but the bill's defenders pointed out that some of the paper's authors were abortion rights activists...
...anesthesia might make women more likely to go through with an abortion. "The mother can believe she is making a benevolent choice, even as she simultaneously participates in a heinous act," he wrote on Christian Newswire. "I can hear it now. 'At least the fetus didn't feel pain...
...There's nothing wrong with people opposed to abortion trying to discourage women from having them. But when the discouragement carries the force of law, it must be based on fact. Pain in adults is something of a mystery and a quandary; aware and articulate, we can describe what we feel - a sharp stab, a dull ache, a twinge, a pang, an agony - and yet still physicians argue over what to do and how to treat. Unlocking the secrets of the womb is surely harder, and the stakes for the mother high as well...
...Regardless of the pain caused the Pentagon by the Haditha probe, it can take some solace from a new study by Colin Kahl of the University of Minnesota. "Despite some dark spots on its record, the U.S. military has done a better job of respecting noncombatant immunity in Iraq than is commonly believed," Kahl, an assistant professor of political science, says in the November-December issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. "I have found not only that U.S. compliance with noncombatant immunity in Iraq is relatively high by historical standards, but also that it has been improving since the beginning...