I'm guessing you support aborting a child after birth too. I'm not sure what you're arguing for but you seem angry.
. On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > So you have no problem with horribly deformed or disabled fetuses being > carried to term, when at best they would survive for a few hours? > > That is incredibly cruel. > > As for the latest excuse - fetal pain at 20 weeks, simply not possible. > The the fetus may have a brain but at 20 weeks there is no perception > period. There are few i f any thalamacortical connections - those don't > come in for another month, so no pain. The brain itself is just a > suspension of cells - the synapses are still growing and connecting. At 20 > weeks the nerve fibers are not even developed enough to transmit a pain > signal. Pain requires a conscious recognition or awareness of a noxious > stimulus. Neither withdrawal reflexes nor hormonal stress responses to > invasive procedures prove the existence of fetal pain. This is because > these same responses can be elicited by nonpainful means and occur without > conscious cortical processing. Awareness of pain requires functional > thalamocortical connections. These fibers begin appearing between 23 to 30 > weeksÂ’ gestational age at the earlieet. Additionally EEG research suggests > the capacity for functional pain perception in fetuses probably does not > exist before 29 or 30 weeks. > http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=201429 > > So another case of the GOTP ignoring reality and insisting that ideology > trumps science and reality. Next thing you know they'll try a King Canute. > > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > So you support late-term abortion for any reason? > > > > . > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I've got to say, I'm quite amazed at how well these state republican > > > legislatures are organized in their efforts to curb abortion rights. I > > find > > > it very amusing that they all seem to be using the line of "protecting > > the > > > health of women" in their efforts to impose harsh restrictions on > clinics > > > to eventually shut them down. Yet, they can't seem to point to any > > evidence > > > that this would actually help women in any way. > > > > > > I'm still trying to figure out how this relates to jobs as from what I > > > remember from the last campaign season, that's the most important thing > > for > > > our country and the current president was wasting time on public > health. > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:365192 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
