{"id":8039,"date":"2011-11-17T03:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T08:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2013-04-01T21:53:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:53:26","slug":"responding-to-a-pro-abortion-columnist-kellie-quinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/responding-to-a-pro-abortion-columnist-kellie-quinn\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to pro-abortion columnist Kellie Quinn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The following is a response to excerpts from a column published<\/a> by The Daily Collegian by Kellie Quinn.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Nov. 8, voters in Mississippi shot down an amendment that would grant personhood rights to a fertilized human egg. This amendment, had it passed, would have labeled abortions as murder and would have subsequently banned almost all abortions, even if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. Additionally, this amendment would intrude even farther into womens\u2019 reproductive health and outlaw certain methods of contraception.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can\u2019t count how many times I have encountered the mythological \u201cfertilized human egg\u201d notion.\u00a0 Science has proven that at the moment of conception, a new human being has come into existence<\/a>.\u00a0 No longer is there a sperm and an egg, but a complete, growing, developing human being.\u00a0 But still, misinformed abortion-rights advocates cling tight to the \u201cfertilized egg\u201d idea. \u00a0I guess it helps them justify promoting hormonal birth control methods that can act as abortifacients<\/a>, disallowing newly conceived human beings from implanting in their mothers\u2019 wombs.<\/p>\n

The Personhood amendment that failed in Mississippi would have defined human beings in the womb as persons, but a state law cannot trump federal\u2014this law, if it had passed, would have sent a message to America that Mississippi is pro-life, but it would not have altered abortion or birth control laws in any way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntrauterine devices (IUDs), and morning after pills like \u201cPlan B\u201d would be banned because they can prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterine lining. According to Planned Parenthood, there is actually no data to support this claim as an IUD\u2019s purpose is to prevent fertilization in the first place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hormonal IUDs have the potential, just like any other hormonal birth control method, to cause an early abortion.\u00a0 I can\u2019t feign surprise that Planned Parenthood\u2019s website is lacking<\/a> in regard to facts about birth control and abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe inspiration behind the amendment was undeniably religious and supports the belief that life begins at conception.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think it\u2019s safe to say that for many pro-lifers, support for the amendment stems not just from a personal \u201cbelief,\u201d but from a scientific fact that life begins at conception<\/a>.\u00a0 One doesn\u2019t need to be religious in any way to realize that killing another human being is wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026When unplanned pregnancies are portrayed in films and television, abortion is often quickly dismissed as out of the question\u2026In \u201cJuno,\u201d title character Juno is talked out of getting an abortion when she learns the baby has fingernails. But are fingernails really the defining factor for determining what is human? Is that how we define life, whether or not fingernails are present? That is how it comes across in \u201cJuno,\u201d that the fetus is a person because it has fingernails. But realistically, is it our fingernails that define us as humans? What if you lose your hands in an accident? Are you then no longer a person since you are without fingernails?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the scene from Juno<\/a> that Ms. Quinn is referring to, Juno\u2019s friend explains to her that her baby has a beating heart and can feel pain, and that he or she has fingernails.\u00a0 By the time an unborn child has developed fingernails<\/a>, he or she has had a beating heart for weeks<\/a>.\u00a0 The idea her child had fingernails already may have been what changed Juno\u2019s mind and made her realize her child is truly alive, but in no way does that mean that\u2019s how we define life.\u00a0 I\u2019ll reiterate, once again\u2026we define life by what science has proved to us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese messages make embryos and fetuses seem more human-like than they actually are. \u00a0A fetus is not even considered as such until 10 weeks, before that it is still only an embryo. At 10 weeks it is only about as large as a strawberry, at 12 weeks it is around two and a half inches in length. Approximately 88 percent of abortions take place before 12 weeks, meaning before the fetus is even as large as your thumb.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cSeem more human-like than they actually are?\u201d\u00a0 Simply because a human being doesn\u2019t \u201cseem\u201d human doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re sub-human in any way.\u00a0 Who are we to inflict upon others this obtuse subjectivity of who merits the right to life?<\/p>\n

\u201cGranted it has fingernails, but is this how we define personhood? Or is it defined by the ability to feel pain because 12-week-old fetuses can feel pain? If this is the case then individuals with Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy, a disorder that inhibits the ability to feel pain, would not be people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to applaud the acknowledgment that 12-week-old unborn children can, in fact, feel pain<\/a>, because few and far between are there abortion-rights advocates who admit such a thing.<\/p>\n

However, this is not what defines personhood.\u00a0 To warrant the most fundamental of all rights\u2014the right to life\u2014it would make sense that being a human being would be sufficient (once more: science proves a human being comes into existence at conception<\/a>).\u00a0 But here we are, still fighting this battle to end what could be the gravest injustice our world has ever known.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is it about these embryos and fetuses that are so human-like? Is it the potential for the life they have? If so, then should we then be basing more policies based on potential?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No human being as a \u201cpotential life.\u201d\u00a0 They do, however, have a life that is full of potential.\u00a0 We should be making laws and policies to protect these lives so they can live up to their potential, and repealing laws that revoke their right to life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are we seeking to remove rights from fully developed humans for the purpose of granting additional rights to humans that do not have much, if any, brain processing yet?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We aren\u2019t looking to \u201cremove rights from fully developed humans.\u201d\u00a0We’re looking to grant basic human rights to every and all human beings, including\u00a0preborn ones.\u00a0However, if we were to grant fundamental rights to human beings in correlation to how developed they are, we\u2019d be granting more protection of these rights to full-grown adults than we do to teenagers; more to teenagers than small children.<\/p>\n

Oh, and brainwaves are present and detectable<\/a> in unborn children by\u00a07 weeks after conception, before even their little fingernails form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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