• Feticide by a dioxin injection to the heart on the day before the abortion -- still possible in a clinic, but a procedure currently performed by only a few highly skilled and experienced specialists in later abortion. For most women this would mean traveling a considerable distance and accepting a somewhat higher degree of medical risk, and the abortion procedure itself would become much more expensive;

• Actual anesthetization of the fetus, a procedure that incurs a considerably elevated degree of medical risk to the woman, and that can only be performed in a fully equipped hospital setting. Since in most states abortion is performed only in freestanding clinics, it would be nearly impossible for most women to find hospitals willing to admit them for this procedure, and of course it would be astronomically expensive;

• The doctor offers fetal anesthesia, as s/he is required by law to do, and the woman replies, "No, thank you."

perhaps the more pernicious is this notion of being able to feel pain, intended to continue to criminalize abortion and those who perform the procedure. Frist has talked about this issue of being able to feel pain. It was the basis of creating the outcry over "partial birth abortion" and attacking the democrats that voted against criminalization.

The primary reason any number of abortions are performed after 20 weeks is because of lack of access or lack of funding. 90% of US counties have no abortion provider. The remainder are cases of severe deformity, or where the mother's life is in danger.