4d ultrasounds challenge abortion laws

The latest 4d ultrasounds challenge abortion laws - they provide video-like images of the foetus with such small features like eyes and lips. Doctors, who have studied the images and believe that the foetus can feel pain and shows behavioral capacities after 18 weeks, hope they will make the government change the existing regulations on late-term abortions. They hope the 4D images will have a powerful impact in the debates concerning the limitation of the time of late-term abortions in the US and the UK to 18 weeks instead of the current 24 weeks.
Science (10 Oct, 2007)
4D Ultrasounds Challenge Abortion Laws
The latest 4D ultrasounds that can give video-like images of the foetus will change the views on the time when the foetus can be considered a person. ...
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