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- From: vlsi06@nest.ece.uc.edu (Gregory S Clausen)
- Subject: Re: Fetal Heartbeat (Re: Supreme Court)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.174924.15156@uceng.UC.EDU>
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- Organization: Unversity of Cincinnati, ECE Dept
- References: <_4fmc=m.ray@netcom.com> <1992Jul22.224714.20097@wuecl.wustl.edu> <1992Jul23.002342.12669@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:49:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.002342.12669@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul22.224714.20097@wuecl.wustl.edu> dgp@atlas.wustl.edu
- >(Don Porter) writes:
- >
- >}Clausen's slogan is a simple statement of fact.
- >
- >It is not a simple statement of fact. At best, it demands a fairly
- >selective sample of abortions to claim that it "stops a beating heart."
- >Someone even jumped in and said words to the effect of surgical abortion
- >stops a beating heart. See the word "surgical"? That is known as
- >a modifier. Use of RU 486 rarely stops a beating heart. As a
- >matter of fact, it has to be administered rather early to be of any
- >use. Is it not often called the "abortion pill"? Don't many object
- >to it because it causes abortion? If Mr. Clausen's assertion is true,
- >however, the pill can't cause abortion, because Mr. Clausen asserts that
- >"abortion stops a beating heart." So is Mr. Clausen's assertion a
- >"simple fact" or is it a slogan which is only conditionally true?
-
- The heart begins beating at 18 days, and by 21 days it is pumping, through
- a closed circulatory system, blood whose type is different from that of
- the mother.
-
- J.M. Turner, G.R. Taylor, et al.,
- _Growth_,
- New York: Life Sciences Library, 1965, p. 64.
-
- I believe RU486 must be used no later than the 10th week. This is 7 weeks
- after the heart has begun to beat.
-
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- Abortion Stops a Beating Heart
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