Kill your TVs, not your babies.
Posted on 06/24/2010 6:50:14 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
Abortions are permitted after 24 weeks on medical grounds There is no new evidence to show foetuses feel pain in the womb before 24 weeks, and so no reason to challenge the abortion limit, doctors say. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' review said foetuses are "undeveloped and sedated". Brain connections are not fully formed, and the environment of the womb creates a state of induced sleep, like unconsciousness, they add. Anti-abortion campaigners are likely to challenge the reports. The issue of whether a foetus of 24 weeks or below can feel pain had been raised in the debate over whether the current time limit for abortion should be reduced. An up-to-date analysis of evidence was recommended by MPs in a report from the Commons Science and Technology committee during the last parliament. They looked at the 1967 Abortion Act, which covers all parts of the UK apart from Northern Ireland. Abortion grounds The Royal College's reviews of existing evidence examined whether or not a foetus can experience pain. It also tried to define what mental and physical abnormalities could result in a "serious handicap". Around 1% of abortions are carried out on these grounds. Such terminations can take place after 24 weeks. In the past, campaigners concerned about the abortion law have argued that this has been interpreted too widely to include relatively minor disabilities. But the Royal College said in its second report that it would not be practical to try to produce a list of conditions that would constitute serious handicap because it was too difficult to predict the long-term impact of an abnormality on a child or on their family. Supporters of the current abortion law have welcomed this report, arguing that even within one condition there may be a wide range of severity.
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So that makes killing unborn babies alrighty then. /dripping sarcasm
Zeese Choooz... sey are not Hue-man. Sey feel not'ing.
This is absolute BS and total propoganda. I read once (in nursing school) that brain waves are present at nine wks as well as pain pathways. What utter crap. I’m shocked, though I guess I shouldn’t be considering the source
Some folks can’t feel pain before 24 YEARS.
It really doesn’t matter to the pro-murder crowd -
some claim to not support late term abortion,
and the rest of them are more honest.
They ALL support later term abortion with their lack of support for banning it.
No “new” evidence that babies in the womb feel pain? I think they are avoiding some old evidence from the sounds of that sentence.
Interesting logic.
Next time I want to kill someone - I’ll have to make sure they’re asleep.
No pain eh?
Is dead still dead?
. . . yet there is concrete evidence to show that babies born before week 24 feel pain outside the womb. Go figure.
It’s fascinating to me that the left’s biggest slur to our soldiers was: “baby killers.”
Now these asshats are riding Washington like a rented mule.
BS. I was a NICU nurse for 10 years. Took care of plenty of 23 weekers and even a few 22 weekers. They are fully functioning babies!
When its global warming we have to act now without evidence-just in case. When its abortion, we have to assume their is no pain got the fetus unless we have unimpeachable evidence.
Evil seeks new ways to give itself cover for the slaughter of alive unborn human children.
Minus the 24-week limit they have in Britain. Pain schmain.
The heart starts beating at 18 days. That’s all I need to know.
So let me get this right...as long as you can numb someone enough so they feel no pain it is ok to murder them...
More interesting logic: don’t kill fetuses old enough to feel pain...unless the fetus is handicapped.
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