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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Here are the [b]facts[/b] - [url=http://civilliberty.about.com/od/abortion/tp/abortionmyths.htm]Top 10 Anti-Abortion Myths[/url] Here you go, Jade [quote][b]3. "This is what an abortion looks like."[/b] Almost always false. Many abortion protest photographs are artist's renderings or the result of image manipulation, and the bulk of the rest are of very late-term fetuses aborted for emergency medical reasons. The most well-known graphic abortion poster is of a 30-week-old fetus, aborted six full weeks into the third trimester. The vast majority of abortions are performed during the first trimester, and Roe v. Wade only protects first and second trimester abortions. [b]4. "Even first-trimester fetuses can feel pain."[/b] False. Fetal nerve cells can react to trauma, but pain reception requires a neocortex--which is not formed until early in the third trimester. [b]5. "Fetuses become conscious at 8 weeks."[/b] False. Fetuses begin to develop a minimal brain stem at 7 weeks, but are not capable of consciousness until the third trimester and most likely remain unconscious until birth. As one brain scientist puts it: "the fetus and neonate appears incapable of ... experiencing or generating 'true' emotion or any semblance of higher order, forebrain mediated cognitive activity." [b]7. "Banning abortion will get rid of it, once and for all."[/b] False. In El Salvador, abortion is illegal with a possible 30-year prison sentence attached--and women can still easily obtain cheap black market abortificients to induce abortion. The only drawback? No medical supervision. Banning abortion won't put an end to abortion, but it will put women's lives at risk. [b]10. "Human life begins at conception."[/b] False. Human life actually begins prior to conception, because each sperm and egg cell is a living thing. It is more relevant to discuss when sentience, or self-awareness, begins. In 2000, the British House of Lords established a Commission of Inquiry into Fetal Sentience, which estimated that higher-level brain development begins to commence at about 23 weeks.[/quote] Jade, we have been through this all before. You really need to get your [b]facts[/b] straight here. Your emotional appeals, based on faulty information, just do not cut it. [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/397/]WebShaman[/url] \| [i]The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. - Sophocles[/i] Loading...
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