Associated Press: Pain, not viability, would restrict Neb. abortions

“Tough, proposed abortion restrictions aimed at ridding Nebraska of one of the country’s few late-term abortion providers by limiting the procedure based on whether a fetus might feel pain, rather than on the ability to survive outside the womb are on a path to approval. Janet Crepps of the Center for Reproductive Rights said failing to include mental impairment in the bill makes it unconstitutional and criticized the overall language as the ‘most narrow health exception for the late abortions that we’ve seen anywhere.’ Read more from the Associated Press >