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34-23A-67Legislative findings as to unborn child capable of experiencing pain.

The Legislature finds that:

(1)    The state has a compelling state interest in protecting the lives of unborn children from the stage at which substantial medical evidence indicates that they are capable of feeling pain;

(2)    There is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain by twenty weeks after fertilization.

Source: SL 2016, ch 180, § 1.

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