Doctors to Appeals Court: Pre-Born Babies Feel Pain at 20 Weeks
A group of doctors is speaking out for life in Arizona as the battle rages there over abortion rights.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) this week filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on behalf of a doctors group that supports an Arizona law restricting non-emergency abortions after 20 weeks.
Professor of Law Teresa Collett of the University of St. Thomas Law School filed the brief in Isaacson v. Horne on behalf of Doctors on Fetal Pain, an unincorporated association of physicians and medical researchers.
“Every innocent life deserves to be protected. Not only does this law protect children in the womb who experience horrific pain during a late-term abortion, it also protects mothers from the dangers and tremendous psychological consequences of late-term abortions,” says ADF senior counsel Steven H. Aden....
Mike wrote: It's what happens when the question "When does life begin?" is not answered properly, even from a biological perspective.
It's interesting how the definition of "life" varys depending on one's motives. For example, NASA's search for life beyond our own planet goes something like this:
"Living things tend to be complex and highly organized. They have the ability to take in energy from the environment and transform it for growth and reproduction. Organisms tend toward homeostasis: an equilibrium of parameters that define their internal environment. Living creatures respond, and their stimulation fosters a reaction-like motion, recoil, and in advanced forms, learning. Life is reproductive, as some kind of copying is needed for evolution to take hold through a population's mutation and natural selection. To grow and develop, living creatures need foremost to be consumers, since growth includes changing biomass, creating new individuals, and the shedding of waste."
If a piece of cometary ice was found to contain complex "life", you can bet nothing would be spared to preserve that life.
It's a sad state when a chunk of ice is of more value than an unborn human life.
Christopher000 wrote: Sean Harris made a good point in his commentary about how ridiculous it is that once a baby is born, it has rights and can't legally be murdered, but while in the womb, it has no rights, it's just a blob that can be murdered at will...without repercussions...without a care or concern. Sorry baby, but I wanted a boy...sorry baby, but your not perfect so I'll try again...sorry baby, you were not planned...sorry baby, I changed my mind.
It's what happens when the question "When does life begin?" is not answered properly, even from a biological perspective. It's what happens when the false argument that a woman has a right to do what she wants with her body is wrongly answered "No she doesn't" instead of "It's not her body!" It's what happens when we allow the pro-death crowd to call themselves pro-choice. The only choice they want to protect is death. It's what happens when they are allowed to set the terms of the discussion, which puts the pro-life folks on the defensive. We ought to know better.
Sean Harris made a good point in his commentary about how ridiculous it is that once a baby is born, it has rights and can't legally be murdered, but while in the womb, it has no rights, it's just a blob that can be murdered at will...without repercussions...without a care or concern. Sorry baby, but I wanted a boy...sorry baby, but your not perfect so I'll try again...sorry baby, you were not planned...sorry baby, I changed my mind.
I'm no Doctor but I'm having a very difficult time believing that babies only begin feeling pain at 5 months. I just don't buy it and feel that's being grossly overstated. Either way though, pain or no pain, murder is murder. Shame on the US and those around the globe who support ripping these innocent little children apart, dissolve them, etc. Sickening.
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