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"J Young" |
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25 Sep 2006 02:15:13 PM |
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Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act Re-Introduced in Congress |
Only the most cruel, cold-hearted, indecent person could oppose such
legislation.
http://www.cwalac.org/article_373.shtml
Congressman Chris Smith (R-New Jersey) re-introduced the Unborn Child Pain
Awareness Act today (H.R. 6099) with 65 cosponsors. The bill will likely
receive a floor vote sometime next week. H.R. 6099 was introduced in both
the 108th and the 109th Congress by Rep. Smith and by Senator Brownback
(R-Kansas).
The re-introduction of the bill includes some revisions, such as a removal
of the provision allowing for mandatory revocation of medical licenses for
abortion providers who violate the law. However, financial penalties of up
to $250,000 remain.
H.R. 6099 would require abortion providers to notify women who want to have
an abortion 20 weeks after fertilization that the evidence suggests their
unborn child feels pain and they may request anesthesia for their unborn
child in order to reduce or eliminate the pain. This legislation would not
require anesthesia and it specifically protects the doctor's right to inform
the woman of any risks to her according to his or her own best medical
judgment.
The recent Partial-Birth Abortion Ban trials have drawn new attention to the
pain that unborn children feel during an abortion. In expert testimony
during those trials, Dr. Sunny Anand, Director of the Pain Neurobiology
Laboratory at Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, explained:
The human fetus possesses the ability to experience pain from 20 weeks of
gestation, if not earlier, and the pain perceived by a fetus is possibly
more intense than that perceived by term newborns or older children ... the
highest density of pain receptors per square inch of skin in human
development occurs in utero from 20 to 30 weeks gestation. During this
period, the epidermis is still very thin, leaving nerve fibers closer to the
surface of the skin than in older neonates and adults.
Congress even requires pain to be minimized for livestock which are
slaughtered. How much more then should Congress seek to minimize the pain
an unborn child feels when he or she is aborted?
An April 15 17, 2004, Zogby Poll found that 77% of the public favor "laws
requiring that women who are 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancy be
given information about fetal pain before having an abortion."
"Whether you are for or against capital punishment, this much is true:
convicted murderers who have enjoyed due process rights are sedated before
they receive a lethal injection. Surely innocent, unborn babies at the very
least deserve to be anesthetized from such unbearable pain. Certainly, no
surgeon would operate in utero without giving the baby anesthesia," said Jan
LaRue, CWA's chief counsel.
Pro-abortion advocates contest that allowing the government to acknowledge
that a baby feels pain during an abortion will elevate the status of an
unborn child to something more than the lump of tissue they contend it to
be.
But as CWA's president Wendy Wright points out, no baby deserves this kind
of treatment. "Every unborn baby deserves to be treated with respect, but
until abortion is outlawed, we should at least ensure the death is not
excruciating."
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J Yöung
youngopinions@aol.com
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| User: "Ray Fischer" |
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| Title: Re: Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act Re-Introduced in Congress |
25 Sep 2006 10:47:06 PM |
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J Young <youngopinions@aol.com> wrote:
Only the most cruel, cold-hearted, indecent person could oppose such
legislation.
Somebody like you?
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H.R. 6099 would require abortion providers to notify women who want to have
an abortion 20 weeks after fertilization that the evidence suggests their
unborn child feels pain and they may request anesthesia for their unborn
Another neocon who wants to force doctors to lie to their patients.
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Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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| User: "Parsifal" |
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| Title: Re: Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act Re-Introduced in Congress |
25 Sep 2006 04:46:21 PM |
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J Young schrieb:
Only the most cruel, cold-hearted, indecent person could oppose such
legislation.
J Young's posting using the word "decent" # 6574...
BTW, racism, intolerance and bigotry are also indecent.
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| User: "Pastor Kutchie" |
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| Title: Re: Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act Re-Introduced in Congress |
25 Sep 2006 04:31:01 PM |
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J Young wrote:
Only the most cruel, cold-hearted, indecent person could oppose such
legislation.
So, how come you don't?
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| User: "Bill Shatzer" |
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| Title: Re: Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act Re-Introduced in Congress |
25 Sep 2006 03:12:52 PM |
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J Young wrote:
Only the most cruel, cold-hearted, indecent person could oppose such
legislation.
http://tinyurl.com/qxs24
Peace and justice,
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