[Oldeconomybuyer]

Friday, 6 September, 2002, 14:15 GMT 15:15 UK

Baby brainwaves measured in womb

The developing foetus can sense sound and light

[joesnuffy]

A test which can measure the electrical signals in the foetal brain could one day help doctors protect babies from damage sustained in the womb.

Now if could only save them from their worste nightmare....the abortion mill....and mothers coerced by femanazis

[wretchard]

This article, from the BBC no less, cannot possibly be true. Everyone knows that a fetus has no brain, no conciousness, no personality and no legal standing. How can you measure the feelings of a vegetable?

Wrong. Wrong and wrong. Roe versus Wade clearly shows that a fetus is merely a lump of tissue, no different from a cuticle or a hangnail. Any suggestion that this cuticle or hangnail has any intrinsic value, other than as a source of biological material, is the product of right-wing fantasy.

This test, dignified with the sonorous title of "magnetoencephalography", must be denounced along with all other types of Nazi science, like the SAT. Only in socialist Cuba ... yada, yada, yada ...

[egarvue]

The developing fetus can sense sound and light...and they are still prime targets for murder. Us pro-lifers should stop using any sort of religious argument in our fight against the abortionists - religion won't convince them, or shame them. But we should be attacking them with their own weapons, science and humanism. Every year, science hands us more and more evidence of the humanity of the fetus. The tenants of basic humanism demand that we protect all humanity, thus how could we stand for the in-womb murder of our fellow human beings. I personally never bring up religion in my conversations about abortion, I defeat the pro-aboritonists on their own turf with scientific data like this article.

[F16Fighter]

bttt

[weikel]

Since I take a scientific view of the beginning of life I would outlaw all abortions except before the period where brain waves appear.

[ER_in_OC,CA]

Remember that late-term Abortion argument in the Senate a couple of years ago where Boxer wouldn't agree that a baby at full term with a single toe left in the womb was worthy of protection from death by the hands of the doctor?

Senator Boxer, we've shown that the baby's brain at least 28 weeks is functioning. And we've shown that the baby's heart is beating. Several examples show that a baby at this state of development is viable. Tell us ... is it a baby in your mind yet, or still just a lump of useless tissue?

I actually know that she wouldn't agree the baby has any value other than what the mother's mind gives her. If the mother "wants her," then Boxer would consider her a "baby." If the mother decided not to have the baby, then Boxer considers her just a lump of goo. Sick.

[nickcarraway]

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