Posted on 12/20/2014 5:01:18 PM PST by Morgana
ane Hodgson abortionist ABC News Special, ABC News Forum Abortion: The New Civil War:11-1-1990
In an ABC News interview abortionist Jane Hodgson made the following statements:
“I have supervised and participated in or done approximately 30,000.” (abortions)
PETER JENNINGS asked: They call you a killer. Does that make sense to you?
HODGSON: “Well, I don’t feel that way. I think I have done a humane service for lots of women in this world. I don’t look upon it as killing, no, because I do not consider, in the first place, that any embryo or the fetus is a person. It is a potential person.”
She was asked by a caller, “Exactly what do you define in medical terms as a person?”
HODGSON replied: “I don’t believe there is a medical definition of person, but it means, it implies certainly a- we don’t deny that the fetus or the embryo is human, but personhood implies a great deal more. A person can- a fetus cannot be a person without a brain. Nothing can be a person that does not have a brain. And a fetus does not have a brain that is functional until at least 30 weeks.”
In reality, an unborn baby has brain waves at 40 days after conception. Here at visible embryo you can read about the development of the brain 35 days after conception. In this link from the National Institute of health, you can read about the development of the baby’s brain at 10 weeks after conception. http://www.visembryo.com/baby/10_weeks.html
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Outrageous. My daughter was born at 26 weeks, and she most definitely had a brain. I thank God that she is a bright, happy child. You would never know she was that premature.
And my son at 25 1/2 weeks! He’s not a little boy anymore, he’s 27. But when he was just a week or two old, when I’d walk in the NICU and he heard me talk, his little eyebrows would bounce up and down (his eyes were closed, it was always very bright in there) His Mommy was there! Now he’ a Navy veteran and doing well. No glasses, nothing. Just a healthy young man.
That’s great to hear. I’ve heard of cases of preemies at 23 weeks surviving. I can’t imagine that.
My daughter has glasses, but that’s genetic.
It pains me to hear of children being aborted, especially after 20 weeks.
Me too. 27 years ago (28 next month!) this sort of thing just didn’t happen. A couple of babies had lived, but they weren’t healthy. My little son was born, no one knows why my water broke and he came home two weeks before his due date, May 2, with no meds and no monitors. Oh it was a rough row to hoe for a couple of years, but by 3 he’d caught up and most issues were resolved. (minor)
Oh, forgot to say, he was due May 2, but arrived Jan 16. How old is your daughter?
She’s 11 now. Doing well in school, dance, and band.
So proud for you! and her
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