The 20-week limit is based on disputed research suggesting foetuses feel pain at that point in a pregnancy.
The Japanese kill 1,000 minke and other great whales every year in hotly disputed "research whaling" in the Antarctic and the northern Pacific.
But the really guilty parties here are all the people who seized on a disputed research result, knowing nothing about the research, because it said what they wanted to hear.
Through two decades of prolific, if disputed, research and some 400 speeches a year on what he calls the forgotten Christian roots of America, Mr. Barton, 57, a former school principal and an ordained minister, has steadily built a reputation as a guiding spirit of the religious right.
Although never accused of wrongdoing, he was one of several co-authors of Dr. Imanishi-Kari's disputed research findings, published in 1986 in the journal Cell, and he vigorously defended her against charges that eventually were aired before a Congressional committee.
If the journal's ultimate decision regarding the disputed research warrants it, he writes, Hopkins "will take appropriate measures". .
That disputed research, in turn, has been brandished time and again as the supporting evidence backing up the program as the overwhelming choice among schools and the educrats who direct spending to problem schools.
The notorious French molecular biologist known for his history of anti-biotechnology activism and scientifically disputed research claimed that rats fed a high dose lifetime diet of Monsanto 's genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weed killer Roundup suffered tumors and multiple organ damage.
It was before Idaho had passed its 2011 law severely limiting abortions past 19 weeks, when disputed research suggests fetuses might begin to feel pain.
Recent, though disputed research, suggests that "mirror neurons" may be "the neural basis of our empathic capacities" [ 14, 15].
