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House Amendment 7a
H 3114 - Session 121 (2015-2016)
S.C. Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
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Reference is to Printer's Date 5/19/15-S.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking Section
44-41-420(8) and inserting:
/ (8)
The connection between the spinal cord and the thalamus
starts to develop after fourteen weeks. The thalamocortical
connections grow into the cortex after twenty-four weeks of
gestation. This means that the first time that pain impulses may
reach the central cortex is after twenty-six weeks.
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Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.