By the fourth week of fetal age – a point where many women are still unaware of pregnancy or first learning that they are pregnant – what you call “not a human being” has a heartbeat.

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/duringpregnancy/fetaldevelopment.html

Support the right to choose – fine. But don’t nickel and dime what the developing baby is called just to reconcile in your mind that a life is not being snuffed out by someone playing God.

No, many women – many couples – are not at all “qualified” to be parents. Just because you cannot see the value of or care for the life you perhaps accidentally created doesn’t mean another person or couple who cannot conceive would not give the child a loving home. There are other options.

And not all people who are pro-life are also pro-death penalty, pro-war, and pro-Bush.

…those weren’t my words, that’s how a hardened leftist titled the e-mail he sent me that linked to this story. The lefty-goons loved it of course because a ranking Bush Admin official is criticizing the President. The left despise the fact that……

revolutionary act.
-George Orwell

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/19/grand_canyon_employe.html

The battle to save Iraq’s children

Doctors issue plea to Tony Blair to end the scandal of medical shortages in the war zone

Colin Brown
The Independent

January 19, 2007

The desperate plight of children who are dying in Iraqi hospitals for the lack of simple equipment…is revealed today in a letter signed by nearly 100 eminent doctors.

They are backed by a group of international lawyers, who say the conditions in hospitals revealed in their letter amount to a breach of the Geneva conventions that require Britain and the US as occupying forces to protect human life.

“Sick or injured children who could otherwise be treated by simple means are left to die in hundreds because they do not have access to basic medicines or other resources,” the doctors say. “Children who have lost hands, feet and limbs are left without prostheses. Children with grave psychological distress are left untreated,” they add.

They say babies are being ventilated with a plastic tube in their noses and dying for want of an oxygen mask, while other babies are dying because of the lack of a phial of vitamin K or sterile needles… Hospitals have little hope of stopping fatal infections spreading from baby to baby because of the lack of surgical gloves…

Comment by USA

Hey, Moron, did I say I was against a woman’s right to chose? Nope, sure didn’t.

But people need to be responsible. Number one, they need to do all they humanly can to PREVENT unwanted pregnancies. That would go a long way toward dragging this number down. Here is a hint: DON’T have unprotected sex unless you are ready to have a baby. Contraception may not be 100%, but the odds are more in your favor if you wrap it/ take the pill/ whatever.

People are going to have sex. But they need to be responsible about it.

As for the Hitler comparison: He killed millions that did not warrent it, same as abortion doctors. So, who is the Grand Executioner?

When did they change “Opposite Day” to January 21st?

The day these thugs are arrested and removed from office should be declared the “Sanctity of Democracy Day.”

Recognise, I am talking about Texas here.

Yep. Real culture of life.

This from the same guy, who as governor of Texas saw into state law, a law which made it legal for hospitals to cut people’s life support when they, or their families could no longer afford to pay for it. Oh, and then treat the Terry Schaivio case, where the woman had made it known that she didn’t want to be kept of life support, a national crisis because her family could pay.

Yep. Real culture of life.

After birth, Bob. It’s always been that way.

And it would have continued to be that way, hadn’t the false Christian prophets stepped into this issue, re-defining words in order to “energise their base”.

They call the fetus a “baby” so as to make an appeal to people’s emotions and frame the debate: Everyone loves babies, hence being pro-abortion is to be a “baby killer”.

You know someone is trying to sell you snake oil when they make appeal to your emotions but not your intellect.

No, I didn’t say that. You asked for a definition, and that’s the definition of a fetus.

I support a woman’s right to abortion, and having said that there’s very little reason to allow a pregnancy to continue to the third trimester and then decide to abort. Sometimes it’s necessary, and those times are rare. It’s between the doctor and the woman, not us.

So abortion until birth is ok?