Preclude prenatal testing?
Does ANYONE really believe that even 20% of women in America will vote for someone who advocates ending prenatal testing?
Does anyone believe 20% of American women will vote for anyone but Obama?
Certainly not for Newt or Ron Paul.
They may vote for Santorum for the same reasons they voted for Clinton; nice hair and big hands.
Well, there’s another way to look at all this bru-ha-ha. From the article on the Brits’ current debate on organs:
British doctors endorse radical solutions to organ shortage
BioEdge ^ | 2/18/12 | Michael Cook
Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 3:27:32 PM by wagglebee
Some of the most controversial methods of obtaining organs have been endorsed by the British Medical Association in a report released this week. “Building on Progress: what next for organ donation policy in the UK?” laments “the fact that… people are still dying unnecessarily because of a lack of organs”.
Among the measures it proposes are:
•Elective ventilation: keeping patients alive solely so they can become organ donors,
•Retrieving hearts from newborn disabled babies,
•Using body parts from high-risk donors including the elderly, people with cancer, drug users and people with high-risk sexual behaviour.
•making donation after cardiac death a normal source for organs
•a presumed consent system for organ donation.
•a shame campaign to draw attention to the “moral disparity” of people who decline to donate, but are happy to accept an organ.
•payment of funeral expenses for donors
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2848695/posts
I always turned down prenatal testing. The only reason for prenatal testing is to identify babies early on to give to doctor the chance to encourage abortion (my ob-gyn always recommended against it but said she was required by the board to offer it). Even she said the only reason to have it is if you would opt for an abortion, which she would not do. Any abnormalities will show up on the 20 wk. ultrasound and give parents plenty of time to prepare.
Another thing my doc always warned about was false positives. An amnio is required to verify positive results and that has a risk of miscarriage. I know someone who miscarried a perfectly healthy baby girl resulting from an amnio given after a false positive prenatal screening test.
“who advocates ending prenatal testing?”
Ending prenatal testing? Did he really say that?
Here’s what he said;
“Santorum said he is talking specifically about amniocentesis, an invasive test where amniotic fluid is taken from the womb. He said the procedure “actually creates a risk of having a miscarriage when you have it, and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies of a child in the womb. In many cases and in fact most cases, physicians recommend, particularly if there’s a problem, recommend abortion. . . .”
Further;
“Despite the fact that sonograms and blood tests are also capable of detecting abnormalities in pregnancies, Santorum said he feels sonograms and “all sorts of prenatal testing” are acceptable, and if he were an employer, he would provide it in his health insurance, but he feels differently about amniocentesis. “
We’re being lied to by the left-wing press, and you’re buying it? Did you read the article? “Ending prenatal testing” is what the libs want you to think. And I ain’t a Santorum guy. My guy is out.