Study: Fetus feels no pain until third trimester
A review of medical evidence has found that fetuses likely don t feel pain until the final months of pregnancy, a powerful challenge to abortion opponents who hope that discussions about fetal pain will make women think twice about ending pregnancies.
I don’t think this resolves much, but it clears up some of the FUD thrown around by anti-choice advocates.
So, since a 5 month-old “fetus”, no matter how much it resembles a human being, has no right to protection because he/she feels no pain?
Using your new benchmark, the mother of Tara Blocker (see link) should have the right to abort her 6 year-old daughter.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=244391&page=1
I’m really glad to see the pro-abortion crowd co-opting a variation of the “lobsters feel no pain when you boil them alive” argument to further their position.
“So, since a 5 month-old “fetus”, no matter how much it resembles a human being, has no right to protection because he/she feels no pain?”
It’s the anti-abortion crowd that use the pain argument, not the pro-choice movement. Taking a rhetorical argument out of their arsenal does not in any way imply support for the opposite argument. They now need to come up with a new argument, because this one has been discredited. Maybe there is a coherent and plausible argument for banning abortion. Pain to the fetus isn’t it.
Any competent nurse already knew that. But don’t let the facts of reality stop the Jesus-freaks from believing otherwise.
” the mother of Tara Blocker (see link) should have the right to abort her 6 year-old daughter.”
YES!!! Despite what the repugs claim post-natal abortion is a fundamental HUMAN RIGHT, which the founding fathers cleverly enshrined in our constitution in such a way that nobody even knew it was there!!! Those who oppose it are little short of rapists.
[...] with a hammer? Or course not. Same reasoning applies here. This is irrelevant, though some are already using this to support their pro-abortion views. (via Pennywit) [...]
Wow. Anything subtler than a jackhammer eludes these guys.
This is not an argument for abortion. It’s the discrediting of an argument against abortion.
Actually, no.
1) This is the result of one study. Hardly “Well, that’s all she wrote.” Remember the “correlation between breast cancer and early-age abortion”? The pro=abortion people didn’t like that one — Which way did it go?
2) Well, Ok, fetuses (feti?) feel pain after 5 months. Does that mean no more abortions after 5 months? Wanna bet?
Correlation does not equal causation. There are tons of other variables that could account for that because women who are most likely to get abortions are not random subsets of the population at large. Therefore there are lots of other systematic variables that could account for the correlation.
And second, this isn’t a statistical study, it’s a review of brain functions, likely performed through direct observation of PET scans and fMRIs.
Feti is the proper plural of fetus. That’s 1 point for you.
Finally, less that 1% of abortions are after 5 months, nearly always done for reasons of severe defect or risk of death to the mother.
Here’s some interesting news, the kind of stuff Oliver revels in:
My point was that, whatever the findings, it is deemed as final and conclusive, and I believe it’s because it strenghtens the pro-abortion argument.
I like the way you say “likely” performed… Does anybody have the details, or all the pro-abortionists jumping on the bandwagon?
From the NYT article:
1.4% of abortions were performed after 21 weeks (more than 10,000 by the way — three times as many babies as people who died on 9/11 – each year since 1974) , and, better yet where you got the idea that “risk of death to the mother” was ever involved in this day and age…
This is a non – starter. I will be opposed to abortions until you can show me that pregnancy doesn’t end in childbirth.
Okay, I have a question. im 22 weeks pregnant and Im way to young to have a baby. And I have my reasons why i want an abortion. Is it to late to have one?