Posted on 02/01/2002 1:48:00 PM PST by Notwithstanding
SALT LAKE CITY, February 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) - In the Feb.4 issue of Report magazine, "Brave New World", columnist Celeste McGovern writes of a gruesome method of blood doping used by some female athletes to boost athletic performance. Since enhancing drugs and even regular blood doping can be identified by regulators, the pregnancy-abortion scheme, while officially banned, is virtually impossible to stop.
Mona Passignano, director of research at the Texas pro-life group Life Dynamics is quoted by Report quoting from a Finnish sports medicine expert: "Now that drug testing is routine, pregnancy is becoming the favourite way of getting an edge on competition." One Russian athlete told a reporter that as long ago as the '70s, gymnasts as young as 14 were ordered to sleep with their coaches to get pregnant--and then abort. The procedure is so well known it has made it to the textbooks. LifeSite found the method described in an online textbook in physiology by Dr. Poul-Erik Paulev of the Department of Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen.
Professor Paulev writes that pregnancy seems to increase muscle strength in female athletes. "Female top athletes - just following the time when they gave birth to their first child - have set several world records. Of course, this is acceptable as a natural and unintended event. However, in some countries female athletes have become pregnant for 2-3 months, in order to improve their performance just after the abortion."
Perhaps her performance was enhanced by the increased blood volume, but that was after a full-term pregnancy. You don't get that hugely increased blood volume after 2-3 months of pregnancy. You just spend those first two or three months yorking your guts out all day.
I can't believe this story for several reasons. First, pregnancy loosens the joints in order to make the pelvis more flexible to allow the passage of the baby's head. But the loosening effect means that joints are more prone to injury as well--not a good situation for the athlete.
Pregnancy also causes tender breasts early on, weight gain, fluid retention, and difficulty in concentrating. In fact the unpleasant side effects, which are unpredictable and usually uncontrollable, have such a negative effect on the woman that I can't believe a coach would ask his athletes to get pregnant. They'd be so busy barfing and bursting into tears that they'd be off their training for months. And abortions are not always easy, either. Many women have to take pain medication afterwards, and this would show up in their post-race bloodwork.
Finally, many women athletes have such a low percentage of body fat that they don't ovulate, and so can't get pregnant anyway.
So, Roger, I give this story a thumbs-down.
He is opining on the practices of olympic athletes in using aborted preganancies to aid their perfpormances. About which he has no demonstrated expertise. Testimony barred.Counselor, you define the scope of the necessary expertise so broadly? Sure you dont want to limit it down from Olympic athletes to female Olympic gymnasts, 14 years old, who have sex with their coaches and abort their pregnancies at 2-3 months in order to aid their performances?
Given that there is likely no one with a great deal of specific expertise in the narrow field you refer to, other then the guilty, who wont likely testify, I think a Court would accept an expert from a broader field. Someone who can testify as to the physical effects pregnancy has on a body (such as a doctor), someone who can testify about the physical strains of athletic endeavors, and/or someone who can testify as to the steps athletes are willing to go through to win, including drugs, etc. This guy clearly qualifies for the second, and likely for the first. I note many articles on athletes, including Olympic athletes, and at least a couple on steroids and doping, so Im betting he can qualify on the third as well. If I get the judge to bite on two of the three Im in and can work around what the judge wont allow.
Id put good money on getting this guy past a Daubert attack. Ive done better work, anyway. Not that I believe this is true, I dont have enough evidence for that. I just think I could qualify this guy.
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I thought the gymnists were kept so underweight (to give that elfin appearance) that it interferred with the menstrual cycle. If so, then how could they get pregnant. I still have my doubts about this report.
It certainly is. It certainly is.
Good God, I can't believe you've said this. I hope you're being scastic. If not you have the IQ of a chimp.
Nothing good comes out of China. The only common sense and morals coming out of that Country are from the few, but largely growing Christian population.
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Another Incriminating piece.
Under oath in July 1997, abortionist Carhart comments on how he commits abortions. Here he is questioned by his attorney:
Question: Are there times when you dont remove the fetus intact?
Carhart: Yes, sir.
Question: Can you tell me about that, when that occurs?
Carhart: That occurs when the tissue fragments, or frequently when you rupture the membranes, an arm will spontaneously prolapse through the oz. I think most...statistically the most common presentation, we talk about the forehead or the skull being first. We talked about the feet being first, but I think in probably the great majority of terminations, its what they world call a transverse lie, so really youre looking at a side profile of a curved fetus. When the patient...the uterus is already starting to contract and they are starting to miscarry, when you rupture the waters, usually something prolapses through the uterine, through the cervical os, not always, but very often an extremity will.
Question: What do you do then?
Carhart: My normal course would be to dismember that extremity and then go back and try to take the fetus out either foot or skull first, whatever end I can get to first.
Question: How do you go about dismembering that extremity?
Carhart: Just traction and rotation, grasping the portion that you can get a hold of which would be usually somewhere up the shaft of the exposed portion of the fetus, pulling down on it through the os, using the internal os as your counter-traction and rotating to dismember the shoulder or the hip or whatever it would be. Sometimes you will get one leg and you cant get the other leg out.
Question: In that situation, are you, when you pull on the arm and remove it, is the fetus still alive?
Carhart: Yes.
Question: In that situation, are you, when you pull on the arm and remove it, is the fetus still alive?
Carhart: Yes
Question: Do you consider an arm, for example, to be a substantial portion of the fetus?
Carhart: In the way I read it, I think if I lost my arm, that would be a substantial loss to me. I think I would have to interpret it that way.
Question: And then what happens next after you remove the arm? You then try to remove the rest of the fetus?
Carhart: Then I would go back and attempt to either bring the feet down or bring the skull down, or even sometimes you bring the other arm down and remove that also and then get the feet down.
Question: At what point is the fetus...does the fetus die during that process?
Carhart: I dont really know. I know that the fetus is alive during the process most of the time because I can see fetal heartbeat on the ultrasound.
The Court: Counsel, for what its worth, it still is unclear to me with regard to the intact D&E when fetal demise occurs.
Question: Okay, I will try to clarify that. In the procedure of an intact D&E where you would start foot first, with the situation where the fetus is presented feet first, tell me how you are able to get the feet out first.
Carhart: Under ultrasound, you can see the extremities. You know what is what. You know what the foot is, you know, what the arm is, you know, what the skull is. By grabbing the feet and pulling down on it or by grabbing a knee and pulling down on it, usually you can get one leg out, get the other leg out and bring the fetus out. I dont know where this...all the controversy about rotating the fetus comes from. I dont attempt to do that. I just attempt to bring out whatever is the proximal portion of the fetus.
Question: At the time that you bring out the feet in this example, is the fetus still alive?
Carhart: Yes.
Question: Then whats the next step you do?
Carhart: I didnt mention it. I should. I usually attempt to grasp the cord first and divide the cord, if I can do that.
Question: What is the cord?
Carhart: The cord is the structure that transports the blood, both arterial and venous, from the fetus to the back to the fetus, and it gives the fetus its only source of oxygen, so that if you can divide the cord, the fetus will eventually die, but whether this takes five minutes or fifteen minutes and when that occurs, I dont think anyone really knows.
Question: Are there situations where you dont divide the cord?
Carhart: There are situations when I cant.
Question: What are those?
Carhart: I just cant get to the cord. Its either high above the fetus and structures where you cant reach up that far. The instruments are only 11 inches long.
Question: Lets take the situation where you havent divided the cord because you couldnt, and you have begun to remove a living fetus feet first. What happens next after you have gotten the feet removed?
Carhart: We remove the feet and continue with traction on the feet until the abdomen and the thorax came through the cavity. At that point, I would try ... you have to bring the shoulders down, but you can get enough of them outside, you can do this with your finger outside of the uterus, and then at that point the fetal ... the base of the fetal skull is usually in the cervical canal.
Question: What do you do next?
Carhart: And you can reach that, and thats where you would rupture the fetal skull to some extent and aspirate the contents out.
Question: At what point in that process does fetal demise occur between initial remove...removal of the feet or legs and the crushing of the skull, or Im sorry, the decompressing of the skull?
Carhart: Well, you know, again, this is where Im not sure what fetal demise is. I mean, I honestly have to share your concern, your Honor. You can remove the cranial contents and the fetus will still have a heartbeat for several seconds or several minutes, so is the fetus alive? I would have to say probably, although I dont think it has any brain function, so its brain dead at that point.
Question: So the brain death might occur when you begin suctioning out of the cranium?
Carhart: I think brain death would occur because the suctioning to remove contents is only two or three seconds, so somewhere in that period of time, obviously not when you penetrate the skull, because people get shot in the head and the dont die immediately from that, if they are going to die at all, so that probably is not sufficient to kill the fetus, but I think removing the brain contents eventually will.
Later under cross examination from the AGS counsel, Carhart stated:
"My intent in every abortion I have ever done is to kill the fetus and terminate the pregnancy."
Go for the Gold
For people apprently rabidly anti-homosexual these guys are sure obcessed with gay sex.
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