Posted on 03/16/2016 8:32:42 AM PDT by Morgana
On Tuesday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on late-term abortions and born-alive infants. This is the same Committee which has courageously refused to hold votes on a Supreme Court nominee from President Obama.
While members of the Republican majority presented witnesses in favor of a 20-week ban on abortions due to the child’s ability to feel pain, members of the Democratic minority presented witnesses that were opposed to this idea and, even, opposed to caring for children born alive after failed abortion attempts.
Dr. Colleen Malloy, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology at Northwestern University testified that “[w]ith advancements in neonatology and perinatal medicine, we have been able to push back the gestational age at which a neonate can be resuscitated and resuscitated successfully.” Further, Dr. Malloy testified that it “[i]s easy for us to imagine the lives of infants past 22 weeks LMP, as they are kicking, moving, reacting, and developing right before our eyes in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).” Her testimony made the point that there should be no difference in the right to life of two children who are at the same exact age – one still in the womb and the other in the hospital.
Comparing the United States’ extreme abortion laws to the rest of the world, Angelina Nguyen from the Charlotte Lozier Institute testified that “[t]he United States is one of only seven countries in the world that permit elective abortion past 20 weeks.” Two of the other six countries on this list are China and North Korea.
Although the witnesses for the majority presented cold, hard facts and statistics, Senator Orrin Hatch acknowledged that “[i]t seems the medical doctors on the panel differ with the sociology doctors” on the start of fetal pain. In fact, that is not all that the witnesses disagreed on.
Jodi Magee, President of Physicians for Reproductive Health stated that “[t]oday, abortion has an enviable record in medicine, with a 99% safety rate and a less than 1% complication rate.” Further, she testified that “[p]hysicians that provide abortion place the highest priority on their patients’ safety and well-being.” While this is irrelevant to the purpose of a 20-week ban – protecting preborn children who feel pain – it could also not be further from the truth when it comes to born-alive infants. Live Action’s series of Inhuman investigations in 2013 uncovered several late-term abortionists who were willing to let born-alive infants die if the woman gave birth before the abortion or as a result of a failed abortion.
Senator Thom Tillis summed up what many on the Committee felt should happen after a baby survives a botched abortion: “I believe when a baby is born, we have a new patient and a new American citizen that we should take care of.” Dr. Malloy also testified to the increased survival rates of very premature infants. She cited a report from the New England Journal of Medicine, which reports that, with the current technology in the delivery room, the survival rate of infants born at 22 weeks gestation is 23 percent. The survival rate of those born at 26 weeks is 81 percent – with over 75 percent having no severe impairments. (More information here.)
For the minority Senators and the minority witnesses, the rhetoric diverted away from addressing the issue of whether preborn children can feel pain. Instead, as Senator Dianne Feinstein stated, abortions should be “safe and legal.” Apparently the third platform of “rare” is no longer satisfactory to those members of Congress and the abortion lobby pushing for abortion on demand without limitations.
Show pictures. Let them see what they’ve done.
From: Retain Mike
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 9:25 AM
To: WSJ Letters (wsj.ltrs@wsj.com)
Subject: Disposing of Medical Waste
The commissioners of Marion County Oregon have ruled they will not accept fetal material for burning in their incinerator. Yet since Roe vs. Wade 56,000,000 abortions have generated roughly 3.5 million pounds of this medical waste, so how could anyone now object to its disposal?
This ruling comes in spite of the Supreme Court decision declaring that all fetuses not viable outside the womb can be extracted. Therefore, before viability removing the fetus must be equivalent to removing any other harmful matter from the human body. When legality provides such moral certitude burning this material must be acceptable?
The advances of science over the last forty years should not be a concern. Granted, in an office today one woman may excitedly present the framed ultrasound of the "baby" she and her husband have conceived and already named. Another woman looking on may have recently aborted a fetus more mature that the one depicted. However, doesn't the legal ruling provide the assurance needed to celebrate both events simultaneously?
I am sure some will raise the allusion to cremating millions of Jews during the Holocaust. However, such misdirected passions must fall before the moral certainty provided to 300 million people by the deliberations of nine brilliant men on the Supreme Court. Surely our intellectual soundness has evolved sufficiently that ancient religions or philosophies should not intrude upon our society and its legal bulwarks?
Company Stopped From Accepting Abortion Waste
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fetal-tissue-power-oregon-homes-23449129?pt=tad2sct8p7?date20220628
Number of Abortions - Abortion Counters
http://www.numberofabortions.com/
Fetal Development (used to estimate abortion when average weight 1oz)
http://www.parents.com/pregnancy/stages/fetal-development/
Roe v. Wade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
Fetal viability
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_viability
IIRC, Obama voted that babies born alive during an later-term abortion should be left die. One of the FEW things he felt were important enough to vote on when he was in the Illinois Legislature.
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