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Thursday, November 01, 2018

Dark Clouds on the Horizon - Democrats and Abortion – Before Revisionist History – When Truth Counted


 Since Roe versus Wade 1973
60,069,971 Abortions in the US
36% White = 21,625,189
25% Hispanic = 15,017,492
30% Black = 18,020,991
9% Other = 5,406,299
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Since Planned Parenthood International 1952
3,564,000,000 Abortions in World

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United States Population 2018
327,535,104

 White 61.3% = 200,778,950
Hispanic 18.1% = 59,283,835
Black 12.7% = 41,596,945
Other 7.9% = 25,875,538
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White Population = 200,778,950
White Abortions = 21,625,189
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Hispanic Population = 59,283,835
Hispanic Abortions = 15,017,492
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Black Population = 41,596,945
Black Abortions = 18,020,991
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 World Population 2018
7,632,819,325
World Abortions since 1952
3,564,000,000 Abortions
Percent of total 2018 population
47%


The Democrats Dangerous Dilemma
Revisionist History and Abortion

History has a way of protecting the truth.  Take today, for example.  Revisionist History has become a new art form as we experience the twenty-first century.

There are two kinds of Revisionist History.  One is the practice of looking back on recorded history and finding errors or omissions that were missed by the author.  When incorporated into the prior history the events may alter more recent historical facts.


I call that filling in the missing gaps in earlier recorded history and presenting the truth.  In my mind it is more of an edit and addendum to what was previously written to correct the account.

The second type of Revisionist History is far more sinister in motive and deceptive in execution.  Generally speaking, it is an attempt to whitewash history or falsify historical events by revising them to meet a perceived current perception.  Twisting the truth to promote an alternate version of the truth, either by adding inaccuracies to the story or by erasing history to tell a different story.


For example, take the case of abortion.  If you were to believe the stories being told today, you would think Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood one hundred years ago, was a champion for women’s rights, for giving women the right to control what happens to their body (abortion), and for promoting birth control.

Thanks to Ms. Sanger and her work Planned Parenthood International began a partnership with the United Nations to bring birth control and abortion to the world in 1952.  By 1973 her people were the driving force behind the Roe versus Wade Supreme Court case legalizing abortion and defining the federal standards for when it could take place and what conditions must be met.


Noble indeed, but not the whole truth by any stretch of the imagination.  For in the course of revising the history of Planned Parenthood a dark chapter in their evolution was simply and conveniently deleted from the books and minds.

You see, the motivation for Sanger a hundred years ago was not to help women in need, nor to give rise to the feminist and women’s rights advocates of the future, it had much darker intentions.


Here is her motivation in her own words that is missing from the Revisionist History of Planned Parenthood of today.  Read them and you will realize her decades of championing birth control and abortion were far removed from the women’s health, rights and empowerment credited to her today.

Eugenics

Eugenics is a nice-sounding word, combining as it does the Greek words for “good” and “birth.” And Francis Galton, who made up the word and the idea, proposed Eugenics “for the betterment of mankind.”  The actual definition is rather horrible: the controlled and selective breeding of the human race.


Margaret Sanger, who was a member of the American Eugenics Society and was the editor of the Birth Control Review, describes the philosophy of eugenics on the cover of her magazine, the Birth Control Review:

“More Children for the Fit. Less for the Unfit.”

Then she made it clear whom she considered unfit:

“Hebrews, Slavs, Catholics, and Negroes.”

She set up her Birth Control clinics only in their neighborhoods. She openly advocated the idea that such people should apply for official permission to have babies:

“as immigrants have to apply for visas.”


In her often-quoted book of 1931, "My Way to Peace," Sanger recommends that the government:
“. . . keep the doors of Immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feeble-minded, idiots, morons, insane, syphiletic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others in this class . . . apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization, and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring. (Jan. 17, 1932 [LCM 130:198].)”

One of the prominent supporters of that horrific eugenics program was Clarence Gamble, and Gamble was a director of Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League, which later changed its name to Planned Parenthood.


In Margaret Sanger’s “Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” the Planned Parenthood founder links the goals of eugenics with her own goals of promoting birth control, writing (emphasis added):

“We who advocate Birth Control, on the other hand, lay all our emphasis upon stopping not only the reproduction of the unfit but upon stopping all reproduction when there is not economic means of providing proper care for those who are born in health. …While I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble-minded, the insane and syphilitic, I have not been able to discover that these measures are more than superficial deterrents when applied to the constantly growing stream of the unfit… Eugenics without Birth Control seems to us a house builded upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit….”

Sanger was highly motivated to stop the procreation by those she deemed “unfit.” In a personal letter to Katharine Dexter McCormick in 1950, Sanger called for:

“a simple, cheap, safe contraceptive to be used in poverty- stricken slums, jungles, and among the most ignorant people.”
But, Sanger added;
“Even this will not be sufficient, because I believe that now, immediately, there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them.”

In 1932, Sanger also called for those who were poor (and those she considered to be “morons and immoral”) to be shipped to colonies where they would live in “Farms and Open Spaces” dedicated to brainwashing these so-called “inferior types” into having what Sanger called better “moral conduct.”

Sanger and the Ku Klux Klan
Margaret Sanger is usually described as a “birth control pioneer” who founded Planned Parenthood, but she also met with members of the Klan, advocated eugenics, and supported the use of sterilization to rid the planet of the “unfit.”


Sanger wrote about her meeting with the Klan in her autobiography. Yet somehow this fact is made light of, glossed over, or completely ignored by the media.


On page 366 of her autobiography, Sanger described her meeting with the Klan, where she says she received additional invitations to speak with similar groups:

“I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan…. I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses…. I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak…. In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.”

Sanger and Hitler’s Nazi Master Race

The birth control movement and the eugenics movement were the same movement — to the point where Margaret Sanger twice tried to merge her organization with major eugenics groups.


One eugenics expert, Eugen Fischer, whom Sanger featured as a speaker at a population conference she organized, had already run a concentration camp — in German-ruled Southwest Africa, before World War I, where he murdered, starved and experimented on helpless native Africans. It was Fischer’s book on eugenics, which Hitler had read in prison, that convinced Hitler of its central importance.

Another longtime official of Planned Parenthood, Garrett Hardin, had a decades-long track record of serving in eugenics organizations, and as late as the 1980s was calling for mass forced sterilization of Americans as a necessary solution to the “population problem.”


The same people served on the boards of the American Eugenics Society and Sanger’s organizations for decades, and they worked closely together on countless projects — ranging from researching the birth control pill as a means of diminishing the African-American birth rate (they tested the early, hazardous versions of the Pill on impoverished rural women in Puerto Rico), to passing forced sterilization or castration laws in more than a dozen states that targeted blacks and other poor people accused of “feeble mindedness” or “shiftlessness” and diagnosed as “unfit” parents.

The eugenicists, self-appointed experts on human quality of life, had peddled their theories not just in Britain and America but in Germany, where they helped to directly inspire Nazi sterilization and extermination programs aimed at the handicapped, Jews, and the small population of black or mixed-race Germans — children of French colonial troops whom Hitler considered a grave menace to “Aryan” racial “hygiene.” One of Sanger’s regular authors in The Birth Control Review wrote in a U.S. newspaper in the 1930s defending the forced sterilization of such mixed-race children, for the sake of Germany’s “health.”


Hitler’s Bible, by Sanger’s Friend

Friends and associates of Sanger (such as Harry Laughlin) accepted awards from Nazi-controlled universities, visited with Hitler and Himmler, and boasted that the forced sterilization programs which they had instituted in America were used as models by the Germans. One author who served on Sanger’s board and published regularly in The Birth Control Review was Lothrop Stoddard, a high official of the Massachusetts Ku Klux Klan, whose book The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy, Adolf Hitler cited in Mein Kampf as “my bible.”

Adolf Hitler officially instituted Eugenics, leading an entire country in carrying out its principles, not only to breed what he believed to be a superior race but to eliminate everyone whom he considered to be inferior. Where did Hitler find early support for his Eugenic ideas? From Margaret Sanger and her circle.


Eugenic Scientists from Nazi Germany wrote articles for Sanger’s Birth Control Review, and members of Sanger’s American Birth Control League visited Nazi Germany, sat in on sessions of the Supreme Eugenics Court, and returned with glowing reports of how the Sterilization Law was “weeding out the worst strains in the Germanic stock in a scientific and truly humanitarian way.”


Margaret Sanger began publication of The Birth Control Review 1917. She was the sole editor of the Review until 1928 when the American Birth Control League (another Sanger foundation) took the reins. A new series began in 1933 and it completely ceased publication in 1940.

From Sanger's "Dream Journal"

[Tucson, Ariz.]  Feb 3rd 1942.

“Last night I dreamed of Hitler–- Saw him in a room so close that I could see his eyes wink. Dream not very clear at 3 Am. just awoke–- But house I was in with others raided by Nazis. I hid under a table with others but one womans leg was discovered then we all were brought forth. Hitler came in to execute war plans & operations using this house as his base. A bird flew into the room from the window & lighted near me-– It was white & a dove-– Hitler caught it held it up high over my head & told me to pick out a feather–-I did so & awakened.”

AD MSP, MN-SSC (MSM S70:513-14).


Presidential Intervention and Politics

Most people view the Democrat Party as Pro-choice and the Republican Party as Pro-life.  From a platform position that is right but both parties have walked the fine line between the two sides of this volatile issue. A decade before Roe versus Wade was adopted, the first Catholic President in our history, John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, was not even queried about the issue. In spite of the lack of interest in the issue, the JFK legacy is quite clear, he has a major pro-life legacy.

Kennedy appointed Byron White to the Supreme Court.  Justice White was the writer of the dissent in the Roe v. Wade case that, with Doe v Bolton, legalized abortion at all stages. 


Here is an excerpt of White’s dissension:

“…I dissent. I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court’s judgment. The Court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant mothers [410 U.S. 222] and, with scarcely any reason or authority for its action, invests that right with sufficient substance to override most existing state abortion statutes. 

The upshot is that the people and the legislatures of the 50 States are constitutionally dissentitled to weigh the relative importance of the continued existence and development of the fetus, on the one hand, against a spectrum of possible impacts on the mother, on the other hand. As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.”

President Bill Clinton was the first Democrat to reverse the pro-life to pro-choice position in the party platform although he was careful to avoid any hint of government funding of abortion.  When his Vice President Al Gore ran for president he further advanced the cause of pro-choice and made pro-choice an essential element in the Democrat platform for decades to come.


President Obama is the first president to become a pro-abortion extremist.  He never supported any meaningful restriction on it.  He opposed a partial-birth abortion bill in Illinois, even as the federal version passed the House with 282 votes and the Senate with 64 votes and was signed into law by President Bush in 2003. He arrived in the U.S. Senate in time to denounce the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the ban.


In 2007, he told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that his first act as president would be signing the Freedom of Choice Act. The act would enshrine in federal law a right to abortion more far-reaching than in Roe v. Wade and eliminate basically all federal and state-level restrictions on abortion. The National Organization for Women said it would “sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies.”


The fact is that the right to abortion is at the heart of contemporary liberalism. Roe v. Wade is liberalism’s Great Writ. Nancy Pelosi considers the right to abortion more sacrosanct than the First Amendment. She would never tamper with or restrict the former; she wants to amend the latter to allow for more campaign-finance regulations.

Obama successfully cemented the Democrat Platform as the social agenda for liberal and social change, reversing years of Democrat tolerance of pro-lifers within the party.  He successfully replaced the pro-life tolerance with a progressive agenda designed to lure in multiple social causes and merge them under a social(ist) umbrella.

Today we see the consequence.


When genetic research became profitable

At the same time the political parties were realigning as the Democrat flipped from pro-life to pro-choice as demanded full federal funding of abortion, the medical industry was rapidly transforming as well.


Scientific advances may not have helped determine the critical fact of when life began, but it did lead to the genetic research field and the conversion of health care from a social service to a profit center driven by profits with no regard to morals.

Perhaps the most ironic result of the advances is that cellular research and genetic engineering established a hope for genetic breakthroughs that could extend the life of humans.  It was called the Human Genome Project, and it began just as Clinton was about to run for president.  Remember, it was Clinton who moved the Democrat party from pro-life to pro-choice.

The Genome Project was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint.

Launched in 1990, two years before Clinton’s election, it was completed in 2003, the year before Obama gave his famous speech to the Democrat National convention that would catapult him to the presidency just five years later.


Sadly, the results of the project created a huge demand for stem cells, tissue from human organs, and a multitude of other issues that would erase all concern for morality or ethics well into the future.

Suddenly, those millions of aborted fetuses became a potential unlimited profit center for medical research, backed by the profit-driven financial investors in the medical community.
Total abortion clinics are under active investigation by federal agencies for the illegal sale of human parts, tissue, stem cells and who knows what else from the aborted fetuses.  We are talking about an industry with billions upon billions of dollars in potential revenue from the national and international sale of fetus body parts.


What is happening in the real world in light of the fact agencies are prohibited from profiting off the sale of body parts?

Statements from a whistleblower on the illegal sale of body parts by clinics or funeral homes involved in abortions.

“So A is like brain, heart, lungs, liver, spleen,” explains O’Donnell, listing the body parts that were “really high demand.”

“So if you really do your job, you get up to 11-20 specimens, you’re getting $20 per specimen. If it’s 1 to 10, you’re doing just blood, you’re getting $10 for one blood draw.”
Regarding current investigations underway:

"The facts are, Planned Parenthood took money for harvesting baby body parts and its partners charged hundreds of dollars each for arms, lungs, brains, and eyes, potentially making thousands of dollars on a single aborted child," said Live Action founder Lila Rose.


Body brokers like Donor Services are also known as non-transplant tissue banks. They are distinct from the organ and tissue transplant industry, which the U.S. government closely regulates. Suppliers of transplant tissue must obtain federal recognition and operate as charities. It is illegal to buy or sell organs such as hearts, kidneys and tendons for transplant.

But no federal law governs the sale of cadavers or body parts for use in research or education. Few state laws now provide any oversight. That means almost anyone, regardless of expertise, can dissect and sell human remains.

Reuters identified 34 body brokers that have been active across the United States during the past five years. Twenty-five of the brokers were for-profit corporations. The other nine were structured as nonprofits, including Donor Services – the only broker Reuters could find that still doubles as a funeral home.

If crooks have already infiltrated the system what are the professional crime syndicates doing, especially when there are billionaires desperate for access to life-saving body.  For more information see the next article on how much your body parts are worth on today’s black market.


Undermining the Democratic Party of Today

Here is the dilemma facing the Democrat party today.  They attracted multiple worthy and high-mind causes and coalitions into the party based on the lure of being the banner issues for the party, and for consolidating the efforts of many of these advocacy groups.

In the process the groups are losing their individual identities and focus by being diluted into the Democrat advocacy machine, and the same groups are being alienated from their original support base because social advocacy is an individual perception, issues are individual in nature, and all socials issues compete with each other for public attention.

Important social causes are being lost in the babble of politics, fund raising for political purposes, and access to public forums, because they aligned with the wrong political party.  Both parties have done this, but the liberal, progressive side of the Democrat party has far more groups competing for attention.

Beyond the impossible blending of competing and explosive issues, there are some strange ironies that result from being the platform for all social advocacy by the Democrats.
Polls show that up to 65% of all legal and illegal immigrants from Mexico and South America oppose abortion.


Seven-in-ten white evangelical Protestants (70%) think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.

Among black Protestants, forty-five percent say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.

Among Catholics, forty-seven percent say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases
The Public Religion Research Institute found 54 percent of Latino millennials said abortion should be illegal in most or all cases.

The message is clear.  No matter what the Democrats do, half of their core constituents will oppose the party position.  According to the latest 2018 Gallup poll, fifty percent of all Americans support conditions on abortions, while just twenty-nine percent support unrestricted abortions.

A new CBS poll has revealed that the majority of young American women do not support unrestricted abortions, take issue with a lot of feminist ideologies, and do not think the mainstream media is a reliable source of information.


The poll found that only 28% of women support abortion being legal in all cases. 34% of women supported abortion being legal in most cases. 25% think abortion should be illegal in most cases, and 13% of women think that abortion should be illegal in all cases. Lifenews points out the significance of these numbers. “In the end, that means 72% are likely in favor of some kind of abortion restriction.”

Less than half of the women surveyed thought of themselves as feminists. 46% of the respondents considered themselves to be feminists, while 54% did not. 

Only 7% of the women polled said that they “almost always” trust the media to give them accurate information. Lifenews points out that “this [CBS] poll only adds to the reasons why [women distrust mainstream media]: while women’s news sites regularly assume that all “women” support abortion and feminism, that’s not the case.”


The Democrat party platform is doomed because nearly fifty percent of the core Democrats are opposed to the party position.  Major decisions face the immediate future of the party.

The alliance between the liberal Democrat party and the Mainstream News Agencies has also worked against the Democrats as the news media is an even more unreliable source of honest news than the politicians.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Most Tragic of all Issues - Abortion in USA - The Brain Wave Test of Life and Death!

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[After three previous years of articles on various aspects of the abortion issue, this article first appeared February 23, 2012 as a solution!  With over 58 million abortions performed in America through 2015, it is time to act!]

1/26/2017 9:07  PM

Total Abortions in US Since Roe versus Wade
59,752,093

Total 2016 population of California and New York

58,875,447

Abortion Policy - Where Choice can end Life

Abortion is perhaps the most complex of all social issues.  A way to accommodate both sides of the Pro-Life and Pro-Choice movements must be found that does not make our young girls and women victims between factions.


The Facts as of February 23, 2012:

54,559,615

Total abortions since 1973

Based on numbers reported by the Guttmacher Institute 1973-2008,

with estimates of 1,212,400 for 2009-2011. GI estimates a possible

3% under reporting rate, which is factored into the total.



Race                Abortions                  Population

White             19.6 million              211.4 million

Hispanic        13.6 million                46.8 million

Black              16.4 million                38.1 million

Other races     4.9 million                  3.7 million

Total               54.5 million              310.0 million

Just the sheer volume of abortions are staggering.  In the USA 55.4 million since 1973, worldwide 1.7 billion.  Those are millions and billions of incidents.  Yet there are also disturbing trends in those statistics that represent real lives.

Most abortions are from unwanted pregnancy, as if that would not be obvious.  However, abortion was never intended to be just another form of contraceptive.  Yet analysis now shows that as many as half of all women receiving abortions have had a previous abortion.  Are abortions so readily available that women are using the abortion to exploit sexual promiscuity at the government expense?  What does this say about the value of life in America? 


Annually the number of abortions has ranged from about 1.6 million to 1.2 million since 1990.  Only four cities in the United States have a higher population than the annual abortions, New York CityLos AngelesChicago and Houston.

Since the automobile was invented and records started in 1900, one hundred and eleven years ago, there have been 3.5 million killed in America.  Since 1973 there have been 15 times as many abortions as auto deaths since 1900.

There have been almost as many abortions in the US as the total number of people living in Great BritainFrance or Italy, men, women and children combined.

Compared to Worst Health Disasters in History

Between 1348 and 1350 the Black Death or bubonic plague is estimated to have killed 30–60 percent of Europe's population, more than 50 million people, reducing the world population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in the 14th century. 

The Great Influenza, 1918 - 1919, also known as the Spanish Flu, the Great Influenza was most likely the deadliest plague in history. The extremely virulent influenza virus killed an estimated 50 million or more people in the space of just six months.  The world’s population at the time was just 1.8 billion.

For comparison, the total abortions in America equaled the total world deaths from either of the two worst disease outbreaks in history, the Black Death and Spanish Influenza.

Worldwide abortion deaths of 1.7 billion are more than three times the total world population in 1350, and nearly equal to the entire world population in 1919, the years of the health disasters.


The debate over Abortion - Choice or Life or both

By all public opinion measures Abortion is the most volatile and controversial of all social issues in America.  The Pro-Choice (Pro-Abortion) movement defends the right of women to control their body while the Pro-Life movement defends the right of the unborn human life.

Roe versus Wade in 1973 set the standard for federal law on abortion yet it is often wrongly credited with also legalizing abortion at any time during the nine months of pregnancy.  In fact it was limited to the question of personal rights versus legitimate government rights.

Specifically what is the government's legitimate interest in protecting the rights of the embryo or fetus?  Since an embryo or fetus do not have rights themselves then what determines when they are human persons?

In 1973 medical science and forensics was far from the level of sophistication of today in being able to determine the moment life begins and when the fetus acquires human rights.

Four decades have passed since the landmark ruling.


During that time Pro-Life and Pro-Choice movements have become rich and powerful and abortion continues to be one of the most decisive issues of the day.  The special interests in the abortion debate are every bit as powerful and demanding as any from the financial or other sectors.

Yet there is something different about abortion than most social issues.  It is the only one in which there is a living entity as the victim and thus it elevates the issue to a real matter of life or death depending on your definition.

Now I don't know of anyone in the Pro-Choice or Pro-Life movements who would say any baby can be aborted.  The dispute is over when they are a human person, which allows a fetus to not be considered a human.  I don't think anyone wants to be seen as a baby killer.


When Does Human Life Begin?

The problem is determining the moment life begins, at least in the eyes of the courts.  That is what Roe versus Wade did nearly 40 years ago.  Science has now proven otherwise.

Advocates claimed abortion was needed in three cases, rape or incest, a threat to the health of the baby, or a threat to the health of the mother. History has proven them wrong. Multiple studies performed with the advantage of actual statistics show only 1% of all abortions resulted from rape or incest, just 2% resulted because of the health of the baby, and 2% resulted from the threat to the health of the mother. In other words the three major causes for passing Roe versus Wade actually represented no more than 5% of the total abortions performed.

Based on the claims in the debate over Roe versus Wade we should not even have a law since so few abortions performed meet the primary needs used to justify the law. However, there is another reason to reconsider the language of the law besides 50 million deaths and no justification for the law, that is what the law did do in the first place.

Roe versus Wade was a ruling by the Supreme Court that centrally held that a mother may abort her pregnancy for any reason, up until the "point at which the fetus becomes ‘viable'". The Court defined viable as being potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid. In 1973 viability usually occurred at about seven months (28 weeks) but might occur earlier, even at 24 weeks. Medical breakthroughs since the ruling and prenatal advances have demonstrated that the ability of the fetus to live outside the mother's womb can come at a much earlier time.

In fact in recent years the youngest baby in history was delivered in Florida at 21 weeks and 6 days, survived and has now gone home to live a normal life.  She is living proof that Roe versus Wade is scientifically wrong, a baby can survive at 21 weeks, not 28 weeks.

Clearly the language of the law is flawed, so what should it be? Here is the test for all pro abortion groups who claim they really aren't advocating taking lives.   If you are sincere in wanting to protect human lives while pursuing an abortion option, then you should have no problem accepting the newest scientific evidence of when life begins.


Scientific Proof of Life versus Death

 There is one medical test widely accepted and upheld by the courts to establish that a human is legally alive or dead.  All 50 states have used this test for over 30 years.

The Uniform Determination of Death Act, promulgated in 1980 and supported by the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, has served as a model statute for the adoption of state legislation that defines death. The act asserts: “An individual, who has sustained either irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.”

Since brain activity is the legal measure for the cessation of life, then it must also be the legally accepted measure of the beginning of life. A fetus becomes a living baby when brain activity can be first measured. According to established science with the use of an electroencephalogram, or EEG, activity in the brain can be detected as early as six weeks gestational age (6). Whether brain activity begins at this time or started earlier but becomes detectable at this time is uncertain; it is known that neural connections begin forming as soon as neurons begin forming, as early as 14 days gestation.


A Constitutional lawyer like President Obama should embrace scientific advances that have proven when brain activity is detected, at six weeks, and since the courts accept brain activity as a reliable measure of life or death, then life can be scientifically proven at six weeks.

As science improves, the brain wave activity will consistently be detected some time between 14 days and six weeks.  All hospitals are equipped with EEG machines and they could be adapted to complete these tests for pregnant women.


Roe versus Wade Needs a Scientific Overhaul

Roe versus Wade, adopted nearly four decades ago, is medically and scientifically obsolete in the determination that life begins at 28 weeks. Responsible members of Congress and the White House should advocate, in the interest of scientific accuracy, a change in the law to reflect the latest scientific advances. With nearly 55 million abortions already performed, do we really want to keep terminating the lives of babies we know are living beings?

Abortion is not a matter of pro choice when the baby being aborted is a living, human being in the eyes of science. Pro Life and Pro Choice advocates should join in seeking this correction of a flawed law and the Obama Administration and Congress should make it the law of the land.



Implementing the New Scientific Findings

In the end this could be the easiest huge policy change regarding a volatile social issue in history.  It would not appear to require any action by Congress or the President.  Since the courts have recognized The Uniform Determination of Death Act as the national standard for scientifically proving death over life, then the same standard and same tests, can determine when the fetus becomes a "human" life or person, when life begins according to science and the courts.

Most governors or state attorney generals could find a way to incorporate the missing language from Roe versus Wade, the lack of a court tested determination of the difference between life and death, through executive order or the many remedies used in the judicial process.

Another option to clarify this issue would be for a legislature to amend whatever their determination of death law to use it as a determination of life or death.  There are many avenues open to those who really want to end the debate and protect those children who are not protected under the current flawed laws.

Get your governor or state attorney general to act and act now and this debate can be brought to a close.  We will have a scientific determination of when life begins and ends, and we will stop using abortion as just another form birth control to terminate unwanted pregnancies.


Most of all, we will all agree on life.
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