Posted on 03/23/2002 9:02:56 AM PST by miltonim
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:20:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A proposal to force doctors to tell women their fetuses may experience pain during an abortion was defeated by the House Retirement and Government Operations Committee.
The proposal was included in an amendment that replaced provisions of a bill (HB2225) making technical corrections to the state's retirement system. It failed on a 4-4 vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at azcentral.com ...
There was a time not too long ago that the medical community believed that newborns did not feel pain. Today we know how wrong that is.
WTF?!
FMCDH!
One more thing I wanted to add. It seems that with medical research exposing more truths every day, like the connection with breast cancer and now that fetuses do feel pain, I think the pro-abortion movement and its financial beneficiaries are getting freaked out. The facts are becoming a significant threat to their profit and platform for power. If the truth gets out they lose big time.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ¦ REFERENCE TITLE: abortion; fetal pain; notification ¦ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ State of Arizona ¦ ¦ House of Representatives ¦ ¦ Forty-fifth Legislature ¦ ¦ Second Regular Session ¦ ¦ 2002 ¦ ¦ ¦ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ¦ HB 2217 ¦ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ¦ Introduced by ¦ ¦ Representatives Brimhall, Pearce, Johnson, Laughter, Pierce, Anderson: Carpenter, ¦ ¦ Cooley, Farnsworth, Foster, Graf, Gray, Hatch-Miller, Robson ¦ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AN ACT
AMENDING TITLE 36, CHAPTER 20, ARTICLE 1, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, BY ADDING SECTION 36-2153; RELATING TO ABORTION.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 36, chapter 20, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-2153, to read:
36-2153. Fetal pain; notification; unprofessional conduct; violation; classification; definition
A. BEFORE PERFORMING OR INDUCING AN ABORTION, THE PHYSICIAN WHO IS TO PERFORM THE ABORTION SHALL VERBALLY INFORM THE WOMAN THAT THE ABORTION WILL SUBJECT THE CHILD TO FETAL PAIN AND ASK THE WOMAN IF SHE WISHES THE PHYSICIAN TO ANESTHETIZE THE CHILD TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE.
B. BEFORE THE ABORTION, THE WOMAN MUST CERTIFY IN WRITING THAT THE PHYSICIAN PROVIDED THIS INFORMATION.
C. A PHYSICIAN WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION COMMITS AN ACT OF UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND IS SUBJECT TO LICENSE SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION PURSUANT TO TITLE 32, CHAPTER 13 OR 17.
D. A PHYSICIAN WHO PERFORMS OR INDUCES AN ABORTION WITHOUT FIRST PROVIDING THE INFORMATION REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION IS GUILTY OF A CLASS 3 MISDEMEANOR.
E. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "ABORTION" MEANS THE USE OF ANY MEANS TO TERMINATE THE CLINICALLY DIAGNOSABLE PREGNANCY OF A WOMAN WITH KNOWLEDGE THAT THE TERMINATION BY THOSE MEANS WILL, WITH REASONABLE LIKELIHOOD, CAUSE THE DEATH OF THE UNBORN CHILD. ABORTION DOES NOT MEAN THE USE OF AN INTRAUTERINE DEVICE OR BIRTH CONTROL PILL TO INHIBIT OR PREVENT OVULATION, FERTILIZATION OR THE IMPLANTATION OF A FERTILIZED OVUM WITHIN THE UTERUS.
Touch, the first sense, is the cornerstone of human experience and communication, beginning in the womb (Montagu, 1978)......
Just before 8 weeks gestational age (g.a.), the first sensitivity to touch manifests in a set of protective movements to avoid a mere hair stroke on the cheek. From this early date, experiments with a hair stroke on various parts of the embryonic body show that skin sensitivity quickly extends to the genital area (10 weeks), palms (11 weeks), and soles (12 weeks). These areas of first sensitivity are the ones which will have the greatest number and variety of sensory receptors in adults. By 17 weeks, all parts of the abdomen and buttocks are sensitive. Skin is marvellously complex, containing a hundred varieties of cells which seem especially sensitive to heat, cold, pressure and pain. By 32 weeks, nearly every part of the body is sensitive to the same light stroke of a single hair......
When prenates experience pain, they do not have the air necessary to make sound, but they do respond with vigorous body and breathing movements as well as hormonal rushes. Within ten minutes of needling a fetus's intrahapatic vein for a transfusion, a fetus shows a 590% rise in beta endorphin and a 183% rise in cortosol--chemical evidence of pain (Giannakoulopoulos, 1994)..........
Babies have been known to react to the experience of amniocentesis (usually done around 16 weeks g.a.) by shrinking away from the needle, or, if a needle nicks them, they may turn and attack it. Mothers and doctors who have watched this under ultrasound have been unnerved. Following amniocentesis, heart rates gyrate. Some babies remain motionless, and their breathing motions may not return to normal for several days...
One of the studies I read found babies at birth recognized music played to them in utero and maternal and paternal voices. It might be one of the studies cited in the link. I can't remember for sure where I read it. Interesting.
Dr Fishburn is a liar, an ideologue, a charlatan or some perverse combination of all three.
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