Partial-birth abortion: dispelling the myths

BP News ^ | 11/703 | Pia de Solenni

[Tuco Ramirez]

The sad thing is that pro-life activists believe they just have to convince others that a human life is at stake; the reality is that everyone knows this already, and some choose to disregard it.

In the US, you can be punished for destroying a bald eagles egg, but not a human one. The argument about "blobs of tissue" doesn't even rear its head; its simply against the law to destroy the bird's egg.

I guess its a case of priorities...

[MHGinTN]

"What about moving an ectopic pregnancy into the uterus?" In most cases, by the time the pregnancy is discovered to be 'out of the uterus', the implantation process cannot be 'started up' again in order to move the child tot he uterine protection. Scientists are working on 'artificial' wombs and uterine tissue matrices, but it's not there yet. As you may recall from by manuscript, a woman gave birth recently to a child that implanted in her liver tissue! The child and mother are doing fine. A tubal pregnancy is almost always life threatening for the mother, but there are other vascular rich locations that can support a little one, as the 'liver child' proved.

[MHGinTN]

Your sentence illustrates part of the problem, currently: "In the US, you can be punished for destroying a bald eagles egg, but not a human one." A human egg is an ovum (not an organism, merely a mega cell from an organ, the uterus). A fertilized eagle egg is an organism; a human embryo is an organism, not a blob. [There's much more available for free downloading linked at http://weneedtalk.blogspot.com ... if you're interested.]

[Tuco Ramirez]

My bad; should read "a fertilized egg".

In one case you get a fine, in the other you might get fed dollars to help with the cost...

[MHGinTN]

In 'human embryology', once an ovum is fertilized there is no longer an 'egg' but an organism, an embryonic human lindividual life. The term 'fertlized egg' (for human zygote or early human embryo) is often used by those who dehumanize the individual at the earliest age, in order to defend cannibalizing them for their body parts.

[hocndoc]

I don't think there's been much success in relocating the ectopic - because he or she is already implanted in the tube wall. After a search for a case of relocation of an ectopic pregnancy, I can only find a couple of poorly documented reports and one report that was found to be a lie and resulted in discipline for the doctors involved.

Maybe, someday things will be different, but for now it's reasonable to assume that the mother's life is in immediate danger and the child is going to die, no matter what.

[lainde]

bttt

[hocndoc]

Thanks for the bump!

(and, that's a cute signature. I wish that's all we were armed with. Or that a tongue blade was the deadliest weapon we used.)

[Coleus]