News Release
For Immediate Release: June 6, 2017
Contact: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078
Reasons Governor Wolf Should Support SB 3
(Harrisburg) — Today the “Stand Up for Life” Rally was held in the Main Rotunda in the Capital Building. It was to show support for SB 300 (defunding Planned Parenthood) and SB 3 (extending PA’s ban on abortions from 24 weeks to 20 weeks and ban dismemberment abortions with the same exceptions as PA’s Abortion Control Act).
Signing SB 300 into law: It is only common sense that taxpayers should not be forced to support an organization that makes its living killing innocent babies. Here are reasons Governor Tom Wolf should sign SB 3 into law:
- By 7 weeks, pain “sensory receptors appear in the perioral [mouth] area.” – New England Journal of Medicine
- By 10 weeks, “All components of the brain and spinal cord are formed, and nerves link the stem of the brain and the spinal cord to all tissues and organs of the body.” – Encyclopedia of Human Biology
- By 12 weeks, “Electrical activity of the nervous system is discernible” and “attempts to suckle” are observed “in utero and in aborted fetuses.” – Encyclopedia of Human Biology
- By 14 weeks, “limb movements … become coordinated.” – Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects
- By 14 weeks, preborn humans exhibit conscious “motor planning” and “social behavior.” – PLoS ONE
- By 14 to 22 weeks, “a physiological fetal reaction to painful stimuli” occurs. – Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
- By 18 weeks, pain sensory receptors spread to “all cutaneous [skin] and mucous surfaces,” and the cerebral cortex (the portion of the brain responsible for higher functions like reasoning and language) has the same number of nerve cells as a full-grown adult. – New England Journal of Medicine
- By 18 to 20 weeks, the human fetus “elaborates pituitary-adrenal, sympatho-adrenal, and circulatory stress responses to physical insults.” – Anesthesiology
- By 20 weeks, the fetus “now sleeps and wakes and hears sounds.” – American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia
Diane Gramley, president of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, noted, “These scientific facts collectively show that by 20 weeks, humans have pain receptors, consciousness, and physical responses to painful events. Babies feel intense pain as they are being ripped apart limb by limb. Such a barbaric practice must be banned.”
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