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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
Like Justice Sotomayor's comment which compares a fetus to a brain-dead person.
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Here's is justice Airhead's exact words:
In perhaps the most shocking line of questioning, Justice Sonia Sotomayor tried to argue that it is impossible to know if an unborn child’s reaction to physical stimuli shows that he or she feels pain. Sotomayor claimed that with “about 40% of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil. There are spontaneous acts by dead-brain people. So, I don’t think that a response to, by a fetus, necessarily proves that there’s a sensation of pain or that there’s consciousness.”
So which is it: Dead people in the morgue for example, or brain dead people on life support in a hospital?
Also, since she's saying that it's "impossible to know", then why as a compassionate, caring liberal wouldn't she want to err on the side of caution instead of
assuming best case scenario? What she is really saying is that we should, in or ignorance,
assume best case scenario. She needs to explain to the court WHY!?
Moreover, how in the world could she even attempt to make such an inane analogy between a human fetus and either kind of dead person when a fetus has a heartbeat and is pumping blood at around the 21-day mark, and brainwave activity is detected around the 40-day mark? How is any organic entity that is dead have a heart circulating blood and brainwave activity?
She also needs to be asked is there any point in the mother's womb when she would consider a fetus to be a living being? Or does she think that life begins at the moment of birth?
