(Prolifer)ations 5-20-11
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli
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- Jivin J tells of a letter to the editor of the Dayton Daily News from a “second year medical student” who claims fetal heartbeat is not a sign that a human fetus is alive.
- Albert Mohler dissects Fox psychiatrist (and co-author to Glenn Beck’s latest book) Dr. Keith Ablow’s “you-gotta-read-it-to-believe-it,” completely unintelligent attack on marriage. In his diatribe, Ablow unwittingly confirms what pro-lifers have long claimed about contraception and its contribution to the breakdown of the family.
- Wesley J. Smith discusses the current San Francisco controversy surrounding proposed legislation to ban male circumcision – even for Jews and Muslims. Smith finds it interesting that a common argument against circumcision is “that somehow sex is less intense and pleasurable” for the circumcised.
- ProWomanProLife devotes several posts to the well-attended March for Life in Canada, and notes the media bias in covering the event. One member of the media – a camera operator – even thanked pro-abortion protesters for being there.
- ProLife New Zealand has launched their “Just Think” campaign on college campuses “to present the issue of abortion in a logical and non-confrontational manner, giving people access to the information necessary to reflect, discuss and develop their own views on the issue.”
- ProLifeBlogs highlights a LifeSiteNews story about a new pro-life outreach center. Originally a church, the building became an abortion clinic before it was finally purchased by a pro-life group.
- Secular ProLife encourages college and graduate students to apply for SFLA’s Wilberforce Leadership Fellowship.
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Jivin J tells of a letter to the editor of the Dayton Daily News from a “second year medical student” who claims fetal heartbeat is not a sign that a human fetus is alive.
WOW, what are medical students being taught nowadays? That is breathtakingly ignorant!
I’d love to know if the so-called medical student’s faculty have removed “Vital Signs” from her practical exams and replaced them with “Not-so-Vital-after-all-Signs” ?? Or maybe she’ll be telling paramedics not to bother checking for a pulse. After all, what does a pulse show? According to this lightbulb, nuthin’!
Why is that not surprising?
What do they call med students who graduate last in their class?
“Doctor.”
Jivin J tells of a letter to the editor of the Dayton Daily News from a “second year medical student” who claims fetal heartbeat is not a sign that a human fetus is alive.
As a third year medical student, I am embarrassed by this. At the rate she’s going, she’ll be lucky to pass Step 1.
Please believe that not all medical students are this foolish.
Lucy
I don’t think it’s possible for a medical student not to know that a fetus has a heartbeat. I think in her own way she’s just bowing to political correctness. What are your thoughts?
The med student knows the fetus has a heartbeat. She just claims a heartbeat doesn’t mean a human is alive.
Pretty frightening, isn’t it?
LOL. More like “What do you call a medical student who graduates last in her class?”
“Head abortionist.”
And they claim WE don’t know or understand science!
I was just thinking about this the other day!! Medical students STUDY and KNOW a fetus has a heartbeat and is a living human being at conception!
What must the abortionist do to push that knowledge away and kill?
Here’s what she actually said:
For more than 30 years, brain death, not heartbeat, has been used to denote life in medicine. Thorough neurological testing for basic reflexes and reaction to stimuli is used to test this.
Neurological pathways in the embryo are still developing at birth. After 28 weeks of gestation (third trimester) the fetal brain begins to communicate with the fetal body.
This means that a fetus would not have any basic reactions to stimuli until well after the current cutoff for non-medically indicated, elective abortion. These fetuses cannot feel pain, nor are they self-aware.
We should not limit people’s choices based on a non-medical, arbitrary marker of development such as a heartbeat.
She brought up one medical consideration of life and death. She didn’t say “the unborn are not alive by any definition.” She wasn’t arguing about “heartbeat or not.”
You may not agree with her opinion, but the concept of brain activity is certainly there, in addition to having a heartbeat or indeed any organic processes occurring within an organism.