See subject. The details are critical to a bill before the US Congress.
It’s up to you to keep this in GQ. I hope it stays here.
I have never read that fetuses (feti?) are ever treated with anesthesia. Is this a thing that is done?
And I’m not really familiar with the bill in Congress, so I don’t know how that plays either.
To be sure, I don’t really follow this issue too closely, so color me clueless.
Leo Bloom (or someone), could you give a little bit of GQ-level background facts about this?
Not needed
What? :dubious:
Basically he’s saying he wants a factual answer separate from its political ramifications, and so would appreciate if the posters would refrain from dragging politics into it.
From The Hill:
House passes late-term abortion ban
By Pete Kasperowicz - 06/18/13 06:45 PM ET
The House voted Tuesday to impose a nationwide ban on abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy over Democratic objections that the bill represents a dramatic attempt by Republicans to restrict abortion rights.
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With limited exceptions, the legislation would ban the abortion of a fetus older than 20 weeks old, or at 22 weeks of pregnancy under a different measuring system. The ban would be backed by possible fines against doctors, as well as prison sentences of as many as five years.
As controversial as the bill is, however, today’s House vote likely ends the process in Congress, as the Democratic Senate is not expected to consider it at all. President Obama threatened to veto the measure on Monday.
Previous coverage from The Hill of the House proceedings (search under “fetus” AND “pain”).
Google news search (“Bill fetus pain”)
Google Scholar search (“fetal pain”).
Please don’t reply with “read the damn Google Scholar cites.” 
And there was no better way to word that? It read like it was translated by SETI
I thought it was fairly obvious what he meant.