Science Is Catching Up to the Reality of Fetal Pain

Judge Jackson said she didn’t know whether an unborn child could feel pain at 20 weeks. But our understanding has advanced considerably since Roe.

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‘Can an unborn child feel pain at 20 weeks?”

That was Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R., S.C.) question to Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday. Her response? “Senator, I don’t know.”

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John Bockmann

John Bockmann is a military physician assistant and co-author of Reconsidering Fetal Pain.

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