Alabama Passes ‘Fetal Pain’ Anti-Abortion Bill, Rejects Exceptions For Rape And Incest - ThinkProg

[WillyT]

Alabama Passes ‘Fetal Pain’ Anti-Abortion Bill, Rejects Exceptions For Rape And Incest
By Tanya Somanader - ThinkProgres
Jun 11, 2011 at 9:00 am

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The Alabama GOP marked a successful week in regressive legislation. Gov. Robert Bentley (R) signed the nation’s toughest immigration bill into law yesterday, requiring local police to detain suspected undocumented immigrants and Alabama schools to collect student citizenship information. The GOP-led state Senate then rounded out the day by passing a radical anti-abortion bill that bans anyone from performing abortion after 20 weeks — an act that would punish the doctor with “one to 10 years in prison.”

State Sen. Scott Beason (R), known previously for advising politicians to “empty the clip” to stop undocumented immigrants, ushered the bill through the Senate. Defending the extreme restriction on the basis of “fetal pain,” Beason — who received a degree in geology — definitively declared that “there’s no doubt” a fetus experiences pain at 20 weeks:

”It’s clear that a baby at 20 weeks experiences pain. There’s no doubt about that,” said Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale, who pushed for the bill’s approval in the Senate. ”We’re trying to get it back to the point where once a baby feels pain, there can be no abortions,” Beason said.

Those with an actual medical degree, however, have expressed significant doubt that a fetus’ pain perception functions at 20 weeks. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, “The fetus’s higher pain pathways are not yet fully developed and functional” before the third trimester. Even a fellow Republican lawmaker in Kansas noted assertions like Beason’s are “based on false research” and “untruths.”

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Link: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/06/11/242176/alabama-passes-fetal-pain-bill-without-rape-incest-exemptions/

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[Warpy]

1. The brain structures for receiving nerve impulses and translating them as pain

are simply not there until the third trimester and quite possibly are only rudimentary then, otherwise the fetus would be overwhelmed with pain during the birth process and go into shock and die.

This is why medically ignorant men should never write laws concerning medical practice beyond insuring that those who do practice medicine are qualified though education.

[WillyT]

2. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

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4. And Those Victims Of Incest or Rape ...

apparently NEVER feel any pain be it physical,emotional or mental. Those babes born,unwanted because they are also victims of rape or incest will never feel ANY pain at the hands of those who are responsible either! :sarcasm: