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A tiny baby<\/a> came into the world last November. The \u201cexperts\u201d didn\u2019t expect her to survive. Weighing only 1.01 pounds, Frieda was a little early, arriving only 21 weeks and 5 days into her mother\u2019s pregnancy. Now weighing a healthy 7.71 pounds, she was released from hospital last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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20 Week Human Fetus<\/p><\/div>\n

The previous week, while commenting on the large number of states considering laws that parallel Nebraska\u2019s fetal pain law, which bans abortion beginning at 20 weeks, Elizabeth Nash of the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute told CNN<\/a>,<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to ban abortion in any way they can. If they can do it at 20 weeks, they will do it at 20 weeks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She added:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are other scientific reports that say fetuses cannot feel pain at 20 weeks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shifting the argument, Nash said:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt flies in the face of Supreme Court holdings.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally noting:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s different about these bans is that they are much earlier than viability, which tends to be between 24 and 28 weeks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice how Nash cleverly worded that last sentence? She claimed that 20 weeks is \u201cmuch earlier\u201d than viability, when in fact it\u2019s less than 2 weeks from the youngest baby to date. And Frieda isn\u2019t an isolated case. James Gill<\/a> also survived after arriving at 21 weeks and 5 days. So, Nash qualified her claim by adding that viability \u201ctends to be\u201d later, which still leaves the false impression that babies don\u2019t survive earlier than 24 to 28 weeks.<\/p>\n

And concerning fetal pain, Nash cited \u201cother scientific reports\u201d to defend the Guttmacher Institute\u2019s pro-abortion position. What she conveniently failed to mention is that hundreds of studies<\/a> confirm the existence of fetal pain by 20 weeks, studies which are based on the biological facts of fetal development, whereas the \u201cother\u201d reports<\/a> are based on an unproven theory that a fetus can\u2019t experience pain without consciousness.<\/p>\n

Note: Guttmacher Institute was founded as a division of Planned Parenthood and is named after former Planned Parenthood President Alan Guttmacher. He was also the VP of the American Eugenics Society.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tiny baby came into the world last November. The \u201cexperts\u201d didn\u2019t expect her to survive. Weighing only 1.01 pounds, Frieda was a little early, arriving only 21 weeks and 5 days into her mother\u2019s pregnancy. Now weighing a healthy 7.71 pounds, she was released from hospital last Wednesday. 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