The viability of a baby to survive outside the womb will no longer be a legal limitation on abortion, if Maine Democrats get their way.
The new legal standard will be the “professional judgment of a physician.”
That is the language of a bill, LD 1619, currently before the Judiciary Committee of the Maine State House of Representatives.
The controversial legislation has become known as “The Governor’s Bill” because it was introduced in the legislature by Democrat Gov. Janet Mills.
Mills said her support for the bill was motivated by the plight of a Maine woman who had to travel out of state to obtain an abortion in the eighth month of her pregnancy after the baby was diagnosed with a painful and likely fatal defect….