34-23A-67. Legislative 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.