Its petition, filed by Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, focused on three questions from the appeals process.[34] In its petition, Mississippi asked the Court to revisit the viability standard on the basis of the standard's inflexibility[35] and inadequate accommodation of present understandings of life before birth.[36] The filing stated that fetuses can detect pain and respond to it at 10–12 weeks gestational age,[37] and asked the Court to allow the prohibition of "inhumane procedures".[38] The petition also contended that the viability standard inadequately addresses the protection of potential human life.