{"id":195608,"date":"2019-02-02T13:56:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T19:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=195608"},"modified":"2019-02-03T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T02:20:56","slug":"texas-ob-lab-rats-preborn-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/texas-ob-lab-rats-preborn-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas OB\/GYN: Lab rats have more protections than preborn babies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a video produced by FRC.org and shared by the Susan B. Anthony List on Facebook<\/a>, Dr. Ingrid Skop, an obstetrician-gynecologist from Texas, says that lab rats have more legal protections than preborn children.<\/p>\n

“An elementary skill for an OBGYN is amniocentesis… typically it’s done around 14-16 weeks gestational age, very early, before pro-choice people tell us that they can feel pain,” says Dr. Skop in the video below. “But if… the baby runs into the needle, he withdraws exactly as we would expect someone who feels pain to withdraw. Additional studies have shown they have increased adrenaline, increased heart rate. They show all of the same signs that we expect from someone who feels pain.”<\/p>\n

“As a society,” she adds, “We want to protect lab rats from feeling pain. We’ve got more legislation to protect the lab rats than we do the children that we’re electively terminating.”<\/p>\n