In April 2010, Nebraska Governor Dave Heinman Signed a Statute

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In April 2010, Nebraska Governor Dave Heinman signed a statute into law banning "abortions beyond 20 weeks of gestation based on disputed claims that a fetus begins to feel pain at that stage." The statute provides for an exception for medical emergencies. According to Denise M. Burke, vice president of legal affairs for Americans United for Life, a nonprofit policy organization that is anti-abortion, the Nebraskan statute "is the first to ban abortion based on that premise." Furthermore, Burke claims "the legislation was bolstered by the 2007 Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart that upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003." Considering Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) and Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), would such legislation survive a constitutional challenge before the Supreme Court?
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