Judge Permits Testimony About Fetus Pain in Abortion Trial

[rodbarnett]

NEW YORK (AP) - A pediatrician who says a fetus can feel pain during an abortion will be allowed to testify in a legal challenge to a new law banning a type of late-term abortion, a judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Richard Casey ruled Friday that Dr. Kanwaljeet S. Anand can testify as a government witness at a trial scheduled for later this month.

The judge rejected arguments from the National Abortion Federation that the testimony would be irrelevant and unreliable.

The new law, passed by Congress last year, forbids a procedure anti-abortion activists call "partial-birth abortion." It is generally performed in the second or third trimester.

The judge said the doctor's testimony will help him assess Congress' findings that the procedure is "brutal and inhumane" and that "the child will fully experience the pain associated with piercing his or her skull and sucking out his or her brain

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[liberalnurse]

1. That is not the procedure use now a-days,

With a fetus....20 weeks to 25 weeks gestation; they inject the amniotic sac with a large does of lanoxin. This is a drug that will slow down the heart until the heart eventually stops...fetus dies and the pregnacy is then recognized by the womens body as a stillborn and begins the expulsion cycle. No need for cracking skulls. The feuts is removed essentially intact the next day.