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To: J.R.R. Tolkien
Many scientists have discovered that unborn children experience pain as early as seven weeks gestation. This has been shown by accelerations in their heart rate and brain waves during an abortion.

Another spurious argument damaging the cause of all those who are opposed to abortion. Accelerated heart rates and "brain waves" occur in people under anesthesia when they are operated on. We know they feel no pain. Since the unborn are essentially "asleep" (under permanent anesthesia) the correct assumption is that they feel nothing, and their reactions are like those who are anesthetised.

Please stop arming the pro-abortion movement with this totally emotional and irrational drivel. If you beleive abortion is immoral, it is immoral to use dishonest methods to defend that view.

Hank

7 posted on 02/10/2002 10:07:42 PM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
Graphics are more informational than speculation.
12 posted on 02/10/2002 10:18:19 PM PST by Khepera
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To: Hank Kerchief
We know they feel no pain.

How's that? Did you ask them?

26 posted on 02/10/2002 10:33:37 PM PST by AndrewC
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To: Hank Kerchief
Since the unborn are essentially "asleep" (under permanent anesthesia) the correct assumption is that they feel nothing, and their reactions are like those who are anesthetised.

You haven't seen "Silent Scream." Or "The Hard Truth" or "Eclipse of Reason."

54 posted on 02/11/2002 3:56:59 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: Hank Kerchief
Do you think the near term baby doesn't feel pain when aborted ?

In any case it is accepted that the baby responds to its mothers voice while in utero. If its nervous system can process sound it surely can process pain.

57 posted on 02/11/2002 4:14:43 AM PST by VRWC_minion
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To: Hank Kerchief
Accelerated heart rates and "brain waves" occur in people under anesthesia when they are operated on.

Oh yeah? Where are your sources? Now we know why some people die during the operation, their heart just cannot cope with the accelerated rate.

61 posted on 02/11/2002 4:32:43 AM PST by A. Pole
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To: Hank Kerchief
Since the unborn are essentially "asleep" (under permanent anesthesia) the correct assumption is that they feel nothing

The unborn children do not sleep all the time and when being aborted they wake up. Do you really think that we are so stupid?

62 posted on 02/11/2002 4:34:30 AM PST by A. Pole
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To: Hank Kerchief
Oh Really?! So when you are anesthesized do you attempt to get away from the scalpel just like filmed ultrasounds have shown that babies in the womb have kicked and moved around in the womb to try to get away from the abortionist's instruments?
90 posted on 02/11/2002 7:00:52 AM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Hank Kerchief
The author IS a physician; you are merely an apologist for serial killing. Alaram? You don't have the human heart to know the half of it.
99 posted on 02/11/2002 10:44:12 AM PST by MHGinTN
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