Posted on 05/10/2019 3:40:06 AM PDT by Monrose72
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in hot water this week over a “disturbing” tweet that she sent about abortion. In response to Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signing legislation known as the “heartbeat bill,” which bans abortions in the state when the unborn child’s heartbeat can be detected, Ocasio-Cortez proved she knows absolutely nothing with her response. “‘6 weeks pregnant’ = 2 weeks late on your period. Most of the men writing these bills don’t know the first thing about a woman’s body outside of the things they want from it. It’s relatively common for a woman to have a late period + not be pregnant. So this is a backdoor ban,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
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Welp.
We knew she didn’t know her math....
My children were born on the 24th, 24th and 25th. The one on the 25th....delivered him 30 minutes after getting to the hospital. Apparently he just overslept.
The baby’s heart starts beating at 6 weeks......Abortion of a 6 week baby in utero is ........murder
It doesn’t matter whether your wife or any other woman was regular or irregular in her teens
Beat me too.
But,
A fetal heartbeat may first be detected by a vaginal ultrasound as early as 5 1/2 to 6 weeks after gestation. That’s when a fetal pole, the first visible sign of a developing embryo, can sometimes be seen. But between 6 1/2 to 7 weeks after gestation, a heartbeat can be better assessed. That’s when your doctor may schedule your first abdominal or vaginal ultrasound to check for signs of a healthy, developing pregnancy. - https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/when-can-you-hear-babys-heartbeat
I come from a apart of the country where early frosts sometimes wipe out the cherries when the trees are just in the blossom stage. Freezes in April and May 2012 wiped out nearly the entire local cherry crop.
The orchardists don't say, "Oh, no biggie. The cherries were just starting to form, so there's no loss really."
No, they're realists. They say, "Damn, we're ruined. We just lost a $2 million cherry crop." Bottom line: if something is valuable, it is valuable at every stage in it development.
If human rights exist *at all*, they must exist at every age and every stage.
A slogan I saw: "Abortions will cease when women refuse to submit."
After Kobe Bryant was caught for the nth time cheating on his wife, Kobe changed his ways.
Kobe purchased a HUGE ring for his wife.
Then, Kobe swore off cheating via regular sexual relations and was exclusive “backdoor”.
I am told this was named the “Kobe Way”
I wonder if the long list of Democrats campaigning for president have devised a scheme to pocket campaign money? I have suspected the attraction of such money has drawn in so many Democrats who want to make a fortune off the donations from the American electorate.
In that case, there is no abortion because all unions of a human egg and human sperm result in a human being.
In truth the humanity of the unborn child is there from the first moment after fertilization occurs - separate and unique DNA of the human life comes into existence. The embryo/zygote begins to develop and if left undisturbed will result in the birth of that human - all that is needed is nutrition and time in the safety of the mother's womb. That life never is anything BUT a human life.
I think the ultimate goal of this legislation is to bring before the U.S. Supreme Court (especially with the Conservative edge now) a chance to readdress the Roe v. Wade decision in the light of what we ALL know now with the advancement of neonatology/embryology. The pro-abortion Supremes of 1972 left the question of the humanity of the unborn off the table claiming it was not established when it becomes a human life. Today, it is no longer an unknown - and it really wasn't back then either, they were just too timid to acknowledge it. The good news is that other states are also proceeding along the same lines and combined they must be addressed by the SCOTUS to settle the matter. I pray that they will have the strength of character this time to rule justly.
It’s relatively common for a woman to have a late period + not be pregnant.
AOC, this isn’t a problem, if she is just late there
won’t be a heart beat... If there IS a heartbeat then
she is pregnant and going to have a BABY.
Back in my college days, my professor taught that Roe v Wade broke pregnancy up into trimesters.
1st Trimester - No state could limit first trimester abortions.
2nd Trimester - States could limit abortions.
3rd Trimester - Abortion only allowed if the life of the mother was at risk.
The 3rd trimester ban got watered down with subsequent rulings that the stretched the exclusions to “life or health” of the mother and further stretched “health” to include “mental health” which basically allowed third trimesters since any woman can claim mental distress.
Since the third trimester ban was diluted over time, is this law the beginnings of diluting the ‘”freedom” in the first trimester and will the Supreme Court allow it?
AMEN! The only difference between a human embryo and a fully formed human baby is time and nutrients. Every single one of us began as a fertilized egg (when the mother's ripe ovum was united with the father's sperm). ALL the DNA that differentiates us as unique individuals was present at that first moment. Ending that life AT ANY STAGE is killing the unique, never-been-before nor ever-will-exist-again, HUMAN being. Even having exceptions for rape or incest is ignoring that fact. The whole Roe vs. Wade decision was predicated on that exception and devolved into where we are today with abortion for ANY reason at any time including even now if the child survives her/his abortion attempt. Abortion should be unthinkable!
I'm curious why you draw the line between the first trimester and the second/third? If a human being exists - which it does from the embryo stage to birth - then isn't it killing a human life regardless of fetal age?
I don’t follow your reasoning.
If approaching abortion as a termination of potential for human life to begin, then the bill would be identifying the point of when human life is identified in the baby while in the womb. Then killing the living person would be murder.
If approaching abortion as simply an economic decision of the mother, to give her a grace period of when to commit to accepting the life inside her, then this begs the question of when life begins.
Other points of view remain, such as the Alabama Rep (D) John Rogers who last week stated, “Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or kill them later,” a perspective which seems to accept murder as an acceptable option, and even if the life is identified during pregnancy, he still accepts the murder as justifiable.
With the arguments of Planned Parenthood, their behavior at their own group meetings/seminars, they apparently fully comprehend they are murdering people and simple lie in their arguments so as not to be held accountable for criminal activity.
The longer abortion is condoned by the nation, those actually engaged in it become lax in their mendacity, manifesting their corrupt thinking.
I favor keeping the medical conditions used in identifying life and death to also be used on the baby in the womb. Otherwise, if we are in an accident, taken into a democrat organized socialized medicine emergency room, those conscious would be allowed to kill you while you are unconscious and send your parts out for market prices.
Ironic isn't it that a person can be prosecuted for disturbing an endangered species' offspring (like a condor's nest) but there's no problem with the butchering of an unborn human baby?
That "rape and incest" exception was how we got to where we are today with abortion on demand at any time for any or no reason (see the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton SCOTUS decisions). If the circumstances of the conception can justify ending the nascent human life, then there can be no intrinsic value of that life. His or her worth becomes dependent upon someone else's decision (the mother's "choice").
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