Facts matter not to extremists...regardless of their party affiliation.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > > http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rep-trent-franks-pushes-abortion-bill-questions-legitimacy-medical-opponents > > In an interview with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins > yesterday, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) once again expressed confidence that > his bill banning abortion after twenty weeks will pass the House. The bill, > known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, is set to come to > the floor today. > > Franks framed the bill as a heroic attempt to protect mothers and children > from "heartless monsters" like convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. > While Gosnell was a criminal outlier, anti-choice activists have seized on > his case to undermine reproductive rights. In an Akin-esque clarification, > Franks stated "the medical community - that is, the legitimate medical > community," says that unborn children are able to feel pain twenty weeks. > Franks' source of "legitimate" medical knowledge appears to be a single > 2007 paper that used rats as test subjects. The American College of > Obstetricians and Gynecologists actually opposes the bill, as well as the > validity of the twenty-week pain threshold. > > ----- > > Gives living proof to this quote: > > "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always > been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding > its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false > notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your > knowledge."-- Isaac > Asimov<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16667.Isaac_Asimov> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364730 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
