The Amazing Fetus

I was reading the crawl on ABC news this morning when I saw that scientists have confirmed that the human fetus starts forming memories in the womb. Juxtapose this news item with the "Soviet" Sotomayor testimony that the "right to abortion is settled law". If a fetus is merely a mass of tissue more analagous to a tumor than a vulnerable, nascent human, already sentient almost from the moment of conception, then like a tumor, there is no problem with removing it. No need for ethical dilemmas if a woman is ridding herself of a little carbuncle as the Supreme Court nominee believes, but as technology has evolved and medical care has improved, what was not able to survive out of the womb when the Roe decision was rendered, is now able to survive if given the opportunity and grow into productive adulthood. In the early 1970s, a premature baby delivered at thirty weeks faced a grave prognosis of almost certain death. Now, thanks to biomedical advances, babies delivered at twenty-four weeks can survive. Even as premie treatments have progressed, the "settled law" is based on the premise that infanticide is not being committed because the standard of care in 1973 did not routinely produce survival until the latter part of the third trimester. With a care rationing regime on the way with Obama's national health plan, not just the preborn should worry but the disabled, particularly those who are most dependent on society for aid and protection (lest we forget Terri Schiavo), who may well be deemed too costly to be maintained under our new medical scheme. If a viable unborn child may be fatally ripped from the womb, then why not pull the plug or starve and dehydrate an adult who is no longer productive and is unable to speak for or defend himself. Murder by way of euthanasia advocate Peter Singer has been an open proponent of this and his views have been embraced by leftists. So in the Big Brother, ultimate invasive government control state that is going to be formed if it is not stopped, abortion on demand for those who neither practiced safer sex, nor troubled themselves with any moral consideration, will be the sacred right while those most in need of our assistance because of disease or debilitating injury will just be too much of a burden for the State to maintain.