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29. It is true. See below.

http://www.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/101/PDF/Slip/LB1103.pdf

LEGISLATIVE BILL 1103
Legislation bill 1103

Approved by the Governor April 13, 2010
Introduced by Flood, 19; McCoy, 39; Langemeier, 23; Pirsch, 4; Fulton, 29;
Coash, 27; Krist, 10; Schilz, 47; Heidemann, 1; Utter, 33;
Stuthman, 22; Wallman, 30; Dubas, 34; Sullivan, 41; Fischer,
43; Janssen, 15; Price, 3; Harms, 48; Cornett, 45; Gay, 14;
Nordquist, 7; [font color="red" size="4"="face"]Mello[/font] , 5; Lautenbaugh, 18.
FOR AN ACT relating to abortion; to amend section 38-2021, Reissue
Revised Statutes of Nebraska, and section 28-101, Revised Statutes
Supplement, 2009; to adopt the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection
Act; to provide and change civil and criminal penalties with respect
to abortion; to harmonize provisions; to provide an operative date;
to provide severability; and to repeal the original sections.
Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska,
Section 1. Sections 1 to 10 of this act shall be known and may be
cited as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
Sec. 2. For purposes of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection
Act:
(1) Abortion means the use or prescription of any instrument,
medicine, drug, or other substance or device to terminate the pregnancy of
a woman known to be pregnant with an intention other than to increase the
probability of a live birth, to preserve the life or health of the child after
live birth, or to remove a dead unborn child who died as the result of natural
causes in utero, accidental trauma, or a criminal assault on the pregnant
woman or her unborn child, and which causes the premature termination of the
pregnancy;
(2) Attempt to perform or induce an abortion means an act, or an
omission of a statutorily required act, that, under the circumstances as the
actor believes them to be, constitutes a substantial step in a course of
conduct planned to culminate in the performance or induction of an abortion in
this state in violation of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act;
(3) Fertilization means the fusion of a human spermatozoon with a
human ovum;
(4) Medical emergency means a condition which, in reasonable medical
judgment, so complicates the medical condition of the pregnant woman as to
necessitate the immediate abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or
for which a delay will create a serious risk of substantial and irreversible
physical impairment of a major bodily function. No condition shall be deemed a
medical emergency if based on a claim or diagnosis that the woman will engage
in conduct which would result in her death or in substantial and irreversible
physical impairment of a major bodily function;
(5) Postfertilization age means the age of the unborn child as
calculated from the fertilization of the human ovum;
(6) Reasonable medical judgment means a medical judgment that would
be made by a reasonably prudent physician, knowledgeable about the case and
the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved;
(7) Physician means any person licensed to practice medicine and
surgery or osteopathic medicine under the Uniform Credentialing Act;
(8) Probable postfertilization age of the unborn child means what,
in reasonable medical judgment, will with reasonable probability be the
postfertilization age of the unborn child at the time the abortion is planned
to be performed;
(9) Unborn child or fetus each mean an individual organism of the
species homo sapiens from fertilization until live birth; and
(10) Woman means a female human being whether or not she has reached
the age of majority.
Sec. 3. The Legislature makes the following findings:
(1) At least by twenty weeks after fertilization there is
substantial evidence that an unborn child has the physical structures
necessary to experience pain;
(2) There is substantial evidence that, by twenty weeks after
fertilization, unborn children seek to evade certain stimuli in a manner which
in an infant or an adult would be interpreted as a response to pain;
(3) Anesthesia is routinely administered to unborn children who
have developed twenty weeks or more past fertilization who undergo prenatal
surgery;
(4) Even before twenty weeks after fertilization, unborn children
have been observed to exhibit hormonal stress responses to painful stimuli.