{"id":247121,"date":"2021-06-16T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=247121"},"modified":"2021-06-17T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T19:21:55","slug":"sen-blumenthal-supreme-court-15-week-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sen-blumenthal-supreme-court-15-week-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Blumenthal says he’ll ‘wait for the Supreme Court’ to decide if 15-week preborn baby is human"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), chief Senate sponsor of the Women’s Health Protection Act \u2014 which would “invalidate nearly all state-level restrictions on abortion, including existing laws placing limits on late-term abortions,” as National Review notes<\/a> \u2014 recently refused to answer a question regarding the humanity of preborn children in the second trimester of pregnancy,\u00a0saying instead<\/a>\u00a0that he believes abortion at that stage of development should continue to be constitutionally protected.<\/p>\n

In relation to the upcoming Supreme Court case\u00a0Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em>\u00a0regarding Mississippi’s 15-week (four month) ban on abortion (details here<\/a>), Blumenthal was asked by CNS News, “The Supreme Court this fall will review a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Is an unborn baby at 15 weeks a human being?”<\/p>\n

Blumenthal replied, “You know, I\u2019m going to wait for the Supreme Court decision. Right now, abortion at that point in a pregnancy is legal and constitutionally protected, and I believe it should be.”<\/p>\n

However, it should be scientific fact, not politics, that determines humanity. Suggesting that a court should decide if a human fetus is human is a horrific mistake reminiscent of the 1857 Dred Scott case<\/a> in which the Supreme Court ruled that Black Americans \u2014 whether free or enslaved \u2014 “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”<\/p>\n

Like those who supported and benefited financially from slavery used the Constitution<\/a> to wrongly support their cause, so do those who support and benefit financially from abortion.<\/p>\n

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Barnabas and Hannah, miscarried at 19 and 14 weeks.<\/p><\/div>\n

What does<\/em> science say about human embryos and fetuses? It definitively states that they are human beings.\u00a0Embryology textbooks<\/a> are clear that life begins at fertilization, making a zygote, an embryo, and a fetus conceived by human parents all part of the human family.<\/p>\n

“A zygote [fertilized egg] is the beginning of a new human being,” according to the book, “The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology”\u00a0by Keith L. Moore, an award-winning embryologist. “Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.”<\/p>\n