A surgeon serving his fourth term in the legislature, Patterson said despite the vagueness of the medical phrase, the decision by voters to overturn Missouri’s abortion ban means lawmakers have no choice but to try.
“What I’ll tell you is, if you took 10 doctors and lined them up and said ‘what’s the definition of fetal viability,’ you’d get 10 different answers,” Patterson said at a press conference last week. “Our citizens deserve to know what these are, and I think that’s a debate worth having.”…”
