{"id":220517,"date":"2020-03-23T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=220517"},"modified":"2020-03-23T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T03:40:13","slug":"idaho-lawmaker-pregnancy-organ-donation-babies-innards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/idaho-lawmaker-pregnancy-organ-donation-babies-innards\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho lawmaker: Pregnancy is ‘donating use of your organs by another person’ and ‘shouldn’t be mandated’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Idaho Governor Brad Little is soon to decide whether or not to sign a bill that would permanently ban abortion<\/a>, should Roe v. Wade<\/em> ever be overturned. The bill passed both the Idaho House and Senate<\/a>, and would make committing an abortion a felony. The woman getting the abortion would not face any charges. Abortionists would face having their medical licenses suspended or revoked. The bill contains exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother (even though the intentional killing of a preborn child is never medically necessary<\/a>). But while the bill overwhelmingly passed the Idaho legislature, Ilana Rubel, the House Minority Leader, opposed it — with some tired pro-abortion arguments.<\/p>\n

The Lewiston Tribune reported<\/a> that Rubel led Democrats in opposing the bill. Yet she had a rather unusual take on pregnancy, comparing it to forced organ donation. \u201cYou\u2019re donating the use of your organs by another person,\u201d she said. “And like any other organ donations, this one shouldn\u2019t be mandated by the government.”<\/p>\n

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It’s essentially the “violinist argument,” which has been roundly debunked<\/a>, time and time again. And the truth of the matter is that no organs are actually being donated; it’s an argument with no basis in science, clearly designed to emotionally manipulate people. But Rubel wasn’t finished.<\/p>\n

Banning abortion, according to Rubel, is \u201cessentially the government exercising the power of eminent domain over your innards.\u201d Once again, there’s an appalling ignorance of the scientific reality, and it’s also phrased in a callous, offensive manner.\u00a0Preborn babies aren’t “innards.” They aren’t part of their mothers’ bodies, or clumps of cells or meaningless tissue. They are actual human beings, and that’s not a matter of opinion. It’s scientific fact. As numerous medical textbooks<\/a> have pointed out, life begins at fertilization, and the moment it happens can even be pinpointed<\/a>.<\/p>\n