Save the Dead!

Abortion Politics

An idea whose time has come now that Texas has made abortion illegal for anything bigger than a grain of rice

This is the same brain activity that the medical community looks to when deciding a person is alive or dead.

Roe v. Wade set the standard as that moment when the fetus typically becomes viable outside the uterus with the help of available medical technology. In other words, if you hook it up, it doesn’t flatline. So as a rule, according to Roe v. Wade, you can legally perform an abortion up to about the 24th week.

At 6 weeks, the embryo is about the size of a grain of rice, with nothing going on inside of it that would resemble human life. In fact, it resembles a small worm more than it does a human.

Human embryos at 6 weeks, which is when abortion becomes illegal in the Texas Republic of Gilead, are brain dead. Partly because there is no brain. There’s something called a neuron tube or some such, but no brain.

So.

Can’t we be consistent here? Who is championing the cause of adults who are brain dead? Please no jokes about the answer being fellow Republicans.

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