The Obsolete Science Behind Roe v. Wade. My youngest patients are unborn babies, and today’s ultrasounds show they are fully alive and human.

Wall Street Journal ^ | October 28, 2021 | Grazie Pozo Christie

[karpov]

The Supreme Court will soon reconsider the decision in Roe v. Wade (1973), which made abortion legal in America through all nine months of pregnancy. At that “point in the development of man’s knowledge,” as Justice Harry Blackmun put it in Roe, there was simply no consensus about when life begins. In other words, the fetus could not be said with any certainty to be alive and therefore wasn’t worthy of legal protection.

As a diagnostic radiologist—whose youngest patients are fetuses, who are very much alive—I submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization urging the justices to rethink Roe, a case premised on a claim about science. I was joined by two other female physicians, a neonatologist and an obstetrician, who also value their youngest patients, believing that whether inside their mothers or born, premature or full-term, they are worthy of respect and protection.

Ultrasound technology was in its infancy in the 1970s, when there was much more uncertainty about life before birth. The first ultrasound machines, introduced in 1958, were enormous, and the images were rudimentary. It was only in the later 1970s that fetal ultrasound became widely available, with increasingly detailed images of recognizably human babies. Black-and-white ultrasound images are now found on refrigerators of expectant parents across America. New three-dimensional images have put a human face on the person once dehumanized as a mere clump of cells.

Perfectly apparent now, to the justices sitting on today’s court as well as the public, are the liveliness and humanity of babies at 15 weeks of gestation—the age at which Mississippi proposes to protect them from elective termination.

Nestled within their mothers, these fetuses on average are 6.4 inches long and weigh 4.1 ounces. They have the proportions of a newborn—seemingly all head and rounded belly.

[NetAddicted]

How old gestationally can doctors take organs?

[broken_clock]

James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has video of Planned Parenthood discussing the want list for baby organs. I don’t recall just how early the aborted babies were though.

[JoJo354]

They do, you are right. I am losing faith in humanity these days.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Absolutely shameful and disgraceful not to give the benefit of the doubt. For thousands of years we knew that a pregnant woman was not sheltering acorns or giraffes. The SC was corrupt then, and it is corrupt now. No excuses. Just dead wrong. Life is not subject to “consensus.” Proponents of abortion disqualify themselves from honest public office and voting. They are a pox on civilation. Their ways must be condemned in no uncertain terms, not practiced as if no consequence obtains.