Please Lord. When will this nightmare end?
When I was in grad school for anesthesia in 2004, we had a lecture from a pediatric anesthesiologist who included in her slide presentation that EEG (brain waves) are present at 9 weeks of gestation and pain pathways from the spinal cord to brain are intact. After that I always considered this 20 weeks stuff to be bullcrap. Even Dr Nathanson’s video “the silent scream” from the early 80s showed a 12 week “fetus” screaming during an abortion. This ban after 20 weeks is I guess a start but really, it’s based on a falsehood and just lets some in the pro life movement pat themselves on the back.
I can’t begin to imagine. The mere thought of this makes me tear up.
I won’t even try to read this, but this is the American people in action.
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This is a very unpleasant article. But it is, of course, a story that must be told. Thanks for posting this, and keep it up.
My die-hard ‘pro-choice’ friends would be VERY happy with a ban after the first trimester - with the exceptions of the life of the mother and severe birth defects.
(I also brought up sterilizing women who requested a third abortion and got a hearty, “hear, hear!” on that. One ‘mistake’... all right. Two ‘mistakes’... ummmm...? When you hit your third ‘mistake’ you’re now doing it on purpose and you don’t deserve to breed.)
When rape came up, I said, “Well, if she doesn’t get an abortion by the 12th week LPM, then she’s made up her mind to allow the baby to live. Why does rape even have to come into the discussion?” Agreed!
(We also agreed that minor children need to be investigated - we can’t cover up for rapists - and cases of accused rape where the remains may be needed for evidence. But again - that’s all 1st trimester stuff.)
Most LIBERALS hate late-term abortions just as much as we do.
Most human beings don’t want it.
We need to stop being the all-or-nothing party and realize that the leftist regressives win because they take baby steps. They just push a little - get a win - then push some more.
Pro-life people are *just* as guilty as the leftists for our current situation because they don’t focus on winning the small battles with a larger objective in mind.
Nope. If you suggest, “let’s start with late-term abortions and put all of our muscle there until it’s done - then work on the second trimester, and so on...” you’re now a liberal, baby-killing, horrible human being.
AND I’M SICK AND TIRED OF IT.
NO MORE THIRD TRIMESTER ABORTIONS. Focus, people! We’ve GOT to start EFFECTIVELY pushing back. Can we PLEASE focus on ONE battle at a time and actually make a difference?
I’m so freaking tired of losing to this regressive BS because MY group is too stubborn to use tactics.
The child feels pain.
BTTT