There is another excellent post regarding Senate Bill 51 (referenced below) on Terry's blog. She names names.
I like that Jeff's entry brings up the portion of the bill that speaks about defining womanhood within the strict confines of childbearing age (and beyond that, ladies, we are "un-woman") and Terry's piece brings up the portion of the bill that deals with fetal pain.
When there are still instances where anesthesia for babies during surgery is not rountinely administered because of potential complications to the child, and a continued belief by physicians that babies don't experience pain quite the way older children and adults do, the notion to require anesthesia for a fetus during an abortion becomes nothing more than a blatant manipulation factor.
Think about it...a woman seeking an abortion is doing so usually under great emotional stress. To think women do not have emotional stress during this time is absurd. So, to pelt her with information about the pain the fetus experiences (when physicians can't agree upon how much pain a baby experiences)would only prey on a woman's fragile emotional state.
That the Bill also has a provision for the printing of government sponsored informational tracts on fetal pain makes the Bill a measure to implement government propaganda and specious medical information.
If the medical establishment itself can't agree on baby-pain and anesthesia, how can it truthfully endorse anything regarding fetal pain? And doing so, at the behest of a bunch of angry little men, makes any statements about fetal pain outright propaganda.
Seriously creepy.
I like that Jeff's entry brings up the portion of the bill that speaks about defining womanhood within the strict confines of childbearing age (and beyond that, ladies, we are "un-woman") and Terry's piece brings up the portion of the bill that deals with fetal pain.
When there are still instances where anesthesia for babies during surgery is not rountinely administered because of potential complications to the child, and a continued belief by physicians that babies don't experience pain quite the way older children and adults do, the notion to require anesthesia for a fetus during an abortion becomes nothing more than a blatant manipulation factor.
Think about it...a woman seeking an abortion is doing so usually under great emotional stress. To think women do not have emotional stress during this time is absurd. So, to pelt her with information about the pain the fetus experiences (when physicians can't agree upon how much pain a baby experiences)would only prey on a woman's fragile emotional state.
That the Bill also has a provision for the printing of government sponsored informational tracts on fetal pain makes the Bill a measure to implement government propaganda and specious medical information.
If the medical establishment itself can't agree on baby-pain and anesthesia, how can it truthfully endorse anything regarding fetal pain? And doing so, at the behest of a bunch of angry little men, makes any statements about fetal pain outright propaganda.
Seriously creepy.
posted by Tish Grier at 10:32 AM
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