22-Week-Old Baby: New Poster Child for the PRO-LIFE Movement?

[GTaudiophile]

I just now realized why this story didn't get more headlines. The Liberal Press buried this story because it is counter to their pro-choice abortion stance. How dare women possibly considering an abortion see that a 22-week-old (5-months) baby survive outside the womb? I mean, we are talking mid second trimester here! I thought this is what the pro-choicers normally refer to as a brainless fetus? But now this fetus is a living, breathing baby with its own Constitutional Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A simple "appendage" a woman can cut off this baby is not!

If National Right to Life are a smart group of people, this article would remain on their homepage for months:

'Miracle baby' goes home after extra day in hospital

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I just now realized why this story didn't get more headlines. The Liberal Press buried this story because it is counter to their pro-choice abortion stance. How dare women possibly considering an abortion see that a 22-week-old (5-months) baby survive outside the womb? I mean, we are talking mid second trimester here! I thought this is what the pro-choicers normally refer to as a brainless fetus? But now this fetus is a living, breathing baby with its own Constitutional Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A simple "appendage" a woman can cut off this baby is not!

If National Right to Life are a smart group of people, this article would remain on their homepage for months:

'Miracle baby' goes home after extra day in hospital

I sure hope that babies parents have Health Insurance.

 

[Balt]

So the media ignored it only because they are liberal. Does that mean that Fox News is running the story every hour?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Balt
So the media ignored it only because they are liberal. Does that mean that Fox News is running the story every hour?

Don't have cable, so can't say.

But I do listen to NPR several times a day, watch NBC Nightly News, and read various DC newspapers, and none of them mentioned this. I guess CNN deserves some praise.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: Balt
So the media ignored it only because they are liberal. Does that mean that Fox News is running the story every hour?

Don't have cable, so can't say.

But I do listen to NPR several times a day, watch NBC Nightly News, and read various DC newspapers, and none of them mentioned this. I guess CNN deserves some praise.

LOL not bad for the Communist News Network as many Freepers like to call it.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: Balt
So the media ignored it only because they are liberal. Does that mean that Fox News is running the story every hour?

Don't have cable, so can't say.

But I do listen to NPR several times a day, watch NBC Nightly News, and read various DC newspapers, and none of them mentioned this. I guess CNN deserves some praise.

LOL not bad for the Communist News Network as many Freepers like to call it.

I prefer Clinton News Network myself

 

[DealMonkey]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I just now realized why this story didn't get more headlines. The Liberal Press buried this story because it is counter to their pro-choice abortion stance. How dare women possibly considering an abortion see that a 22-week-old (5-months) baby survive outside the womb? I mean, we are talking mid second trimester here! I thought this is what the pro-choicers normally refer to as a brainless fetus? But now this fetus is a living, breathing baby with its own Constitutional Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A simple "appendage" a woman can cut off this baby is not!

If National Right to Life are a smart group of people, this article would remain on their homepage for months:

'Miracle baby' goes home after extra day in hospital

Wow, this thread is really going places! :roll:

 

[Kwaipie]

I think this unfortunate baby will make the perfect poster child for the anti-abortion crowd. It is almost certainly going to be massively brain damaged and will have health problems for life. There's a reason the gestation period is 9 months.

 

[DealMonkey]

And BTW, this story was all over the MSM, you just weren't paying attention.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Kwaipie
I think this unfortunate baby will make the perfect poster child for the anti-abortion crowd. It is almost certainly going to be massively brain damaged and will have health problems for life. There's a reason the gestation period is 9 months.

Possible.

I was in the oven only for 7 months and turned out fine...well, Republican...but fine.

 

[CycloWizard]

This was posted a couple weeks ago. I don't see how it has any impact on the abortion debate other than to point out the idiocy of the viability theory of personhood.

 

[johnnobts]

was in the oven only for 7 months and turned out fine...well, Republican...but fine.
____________

yeah i was a premie too. must explain my right-leaning, Christian tendencies... According to John Kerry, all our soldiers must be premies too, since they were too stupid and ended up in iraq.

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I just now realized why this story didn't get more headlines. The Liberal Press buried this story because it is counter to their pro-choice abortion stance. How dare women possibly considering an abortion see that a 22-week-old (5-months) baby survive outside the womb? I mean, we are talking mid second trimester here! I thought this is what the pro-choicers normally refer to as a brainless fetus? But now this fetus is a living, breathing baby with its own Constitutional Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A simple "appendage" a woman can cut off this baby is not!

If National Right to Life are a smart group of people, this article would remain on their homepage for months:

'Miracle baby' goes home after extra day in hospital

It is what they refer to it as , as to admit otherwise would be an Inconvienant truth.

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: Kwaipie
I think this unfortunate baby will make the perfect poster child for the anti-abortion crowd. It is almost certainly going to be massively brain damaged and will have health problems for life. There's a reason the gestation period is 9 months.

What if she is perfectly healthy? Will you still be for abortion at that age with proof that it is in fact a fully capable person?

 

[jpeyton]

That baby is the exception, not the rule. You can't pull out 5-month old premies and expect most of them to survive without complications. There are scores of 6/7 month premies with plenty of health complications that prove the argument.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I just now realized why this story didn't get more headlines. The Liberal Press buried this story because it is counter to their pro-choice abortion stance. How dare women possibly considering an abortion see that a 22-week-old (5-months) baby survive outside the womb? I mean, we are talking mid second trimester here! I thought this is what the pro-choicers normally refer to as a brainless fetus? But now this fetus is a living, breathing baby with its own Constitutional Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A simple "appendage" a woman can cut off this baby is not!

It's still devoid of a personality just as a full-term newborn is devoid of a personality (and thus, "there aint no person in there"). How could a personality possibly develop in the womb when there is almost nothing to perceive and no basis for the formation of a personality (let alone the brain's inability to even maintain abstract, conceptual-level, human-level thoughts). It's hard to murder a person if the personality never existed to begin with.

Sorry guys, you'll have to go back to the faith-based mystical argument about how the magic god-being "breathes" a "soul" into the embryo at conception.

I'm still waiting for you guys to explain where God came from in the first place and what created the creator and what created the creator of the creator and so on.

 

[her209]

Welcome to last month!

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
That baby is the exception, not the rule. You can't pull out 5-month old premies and expect most of them to survive without complications. There are scores of 6/7 month premies with plenty of health complications that prove the argument.

Heh... maybe the mother can sign a waiver that allows the doctor to perform a C-section and obligates the hospital take care of the baby.

 

[BoberFett]

My only wish was that we could extend abortion rights to the 75th trimester.

 

[umbrella39]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I just now realized why this story didn't get more headlines. The Liberal Press buried this story because it is counter to their pro-choice abortion stance. How dare women possibly considering an abortion see that a 22-week-old (5-months) baby survive outside the womb? I mean, we are talking mid second trimester here! I thought this is what the pro-choicers normally refer to as a brainless fetus? But now this fetus is a living, breathing baby with its own Constitutional Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A simple "appendage" a woman can cut off this baby is not!

If National Right to Life are a smart group of people, this article would remain on their homepage for months:

'Miracle baby' goes home after extra day in hospital

I heard about it all over the news. But this is par for your usual rants.

 

[fskimospy]

Yeah, I'm not even interested in this sort of thing and I heard about it everywhere. For two or three days it was all over the news. Damn liberal media only devoting dozens of hours to the story! God... when will the liberal media myth die? I think people lend it credence when they try to defend against that stupid... stupid accusation. (I'm guilty of it too). What moon-news do you people watch anyway that is so liberal?

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I just now realized why this story didn't get more headlines. The Liberal Press buried this story because it is counter to their pro-choice abortion stance.

you and Hillary have a lot in common... you should sit down and compare your vast left wing conspiracy with her vast right wing conspiracy

why is it that people like to roll out the vast left wing conspiracy every chance they get as if there really is some Liberal Media gestalt.

I mean, it's a touching story, but it got coverage. how much coverage do you need it to get until it's enough? should 1 baby's survival outweigh coverage of, say, the war in Iraq and the deaths over there?

 

[compuwiz1]

This baby was a defiance of the odds, so far. Nothing for pro-lifers to grab onto.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I just now realized why this story didn't get more headlines. The Liberal Press buried this story because it is counter to their pro-choice abortion stance. How dare women possibly considering an abortion see that a 22-week-old (5-months) baby survive outside the womb? I mean, we are talking mid second trimester here! I thought this is what the pro-choicers normally refer to as a brainless fetus? But now this fetus is a living, breathing baby with its own Constitutional Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A simple "appendage" a woman can cut off this baby is not!

If National Right to Life are a smart group of people, this article would remain on their homepage for months:

'Miracle baby' goes home after extra day in hospital

Aptly named story. "Miracle" baby. This kid won the lotto at the age of -0.25.

 

[JD50]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
This baby was a defiance of the odds, so far. Nothing for pro-lifers to grab onto.

It shows that obviously, a fetus at 22 weeks is a human baby, and not some lump of cells like some people make them out to be. So what if the baby was a defiance of the odds, should we start putting old people to sleep once they hit 100 years old, since they probably won't make it much longer?