Utah Senate Panel Approves Fetal Pain Bill Informing Women Before Abortion

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 24, 2009

Salt Lake City, UT (LifeNews.com) -- A Utah state Senate committee has approved a fetal pain bill that requires abortion practitioners to tell women about the pain their baby will feel during an abortion. The measure is another effort to help reduce abortions until the day comes that unborn children are protected under law.

The panel approved the bill 3-2 and now it heads to the full Senate for a debate and vote.

Rep. Carl Wimmer, a Republican, is behind the fetal pain measure, which also gives women considering an abortion a chance to offer the baby anesthesia.

The measure would apply to any abortions done beyond 20 weeks of pregnancy. the rest