{"id":187453,"date":"2018-09-04T06:59:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T11:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=187453"},"modified":"2018-09-06T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T01:12:00","slug":"roe-v-wade-ignored-scientific-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/roe-v-wade-ignored-scientific-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Roe v. Wade violates science, which confirms preborn children are human beings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some people, especially those in the pro-choice camp, believe that “personhood” and “being a member of the human species” are two different things. But are they? By creating this artificial divide, society can deem certain members of the human family “persons” while denying that title to others of that same family. During arguments in the Roe v. Wade<\/em> case before the full U.S. Supreme Court in 1972, Texas Attorney General Robert C. Flowers argued for the state against abortion legalization. Flowers was asked by Justice\u00a0Thurgood Marshall, “Is there any medical testimony of any kind that says that a fetus is a person at the time of inception?”<\/p>\n

In response, Flowers submitted dissenting arguments made by Senior Judge Campbell in a 1971 Illinois abortion case, Doe v.s Scott<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0which Flowers said was “very similar to the case we have before us.”<\/p>\n

READ: Science shows the humanity of preborn children — so why are scientists ignoring it?<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Robert C. Flowers (Image: Oyez, 24 Aug. 2018, www.oyez.org)<\/p><\/div>\n

In that case, Justice Campbell spoke against amending or repealing Illinois’ existing abortion statute. He\u00a0wrote,<\/a>\u00a0“We, as did the Illinois Legislature, have before us the following undisputed facts relating to fetal life.”\u00a0Campbell eloquently presented facts about the development of the preborn child, quoted in part below (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Seven weeks after conception<\/strong> the fertilized egg develops into a well proportioned small scale baby. It bears all of the familiar external features and all the internal organs of an adult human being. It has muscles; hands with fingers and thumbs; and the legs have recognizable knees, ankles and toes.<\/em><\/p>\n

The brain is operative…. Brain waves have been noted at 43 days<\/strong>. The heart beats; the stomach produces digestive juices; the liver manufactures blood cells; and the kidneys begin to function by extracting uric acid from the blood.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the third month<\/strong> it can kick its legs, turn its feet, curl and fan its toes, make a fist, move its thumb, bend its wrist, turn its head, and even open its mouth and swallow and drink the amniotic fluid that surrounds it. Thumb sucking has been noted at this age… with inhaling and exhaling respiratory movements.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the twelfth week<\/strong> it can move its thumb, in opposition to its fingers. It swallows regularly. It has active reflexes. The facial expressions of a fetus in its third month are already similar to the facial expression of its parents….<\/em><\/p>\n

In the third month<\/strong> finger nails appear; sexual differentiation is apparent in both internal and external organs….<\/em><\/p>\n

From the twelfth to the sixteenth week<\/strong> the child grows to eight or ten inches in height and receives oxygen and food from its mother through the placental attachment. In the fifth month<\/strong> it gains two inches in height and ten ounces in weight…. It sleeps and wakes and may be awakened by external vibrations.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the sixth month<\/strong> the fetus develops a strong muscular grip with its hands; starts to breathe regularly and can maintain a respiratory response for twenty-four hours if born prematurely…. A child has been known to survive between twenty to twenty-five weeks old<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“Indeed, as medical science progresses in the field of detection, the date of potential viability moves continually closer to earlier stages of gestation,” Justice Campbell wrote.<\/p>\n