I know that some of your Senate colleagues are confused about why providers use anesthesia if the fetus can't feel pain. The anesthesia relaxes a patient’s uterus, preventing premature contractions, immobilizing the fetus to ensure the surgery goes easier.
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During surgery, doctors must be precise and cautious. Uterine contractions at the wrong time can be dangerous. This helps providers give their patients the best and safest care.
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In fact, experts from have concluded that “use of analgesia provided no clear benefit to the fetus.”
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“Studies suggest that the first pathways associated with pain perception are not present until well into the third trimester.”
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Research has shown a fetus does not yet have the capacity to experience pain until at least the third trimester, and unlikely until birth.
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A fetus may have a reflex reaction to a painful stimulus by 18 weeks, however the neural connections to the cerebral cortex do not exist to allow the fetus to perceive this as pain. You can learn more at laterabortion.org
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I am a doctor and abortion provider. I do what’s best for my patients, their health, and their families. I listen to them and offer evidence-based medical advice. I am also a citizen, and I believe our laws should be based on scientific evidence.
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I rely on evidence-based science to offer my patients options to have safe, and healthy pregnancies. I hope you will too, @SenateMajLdr.
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One more thing –– are you aware that many of the restrictions on abortion that you support are creating barriers to access, thus forcing patients to seek abortions in the second and third trimesters? expressnews.com/news/local/art
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These restrictions make access difficult, forcing patients to travel to a clinic, experience delays while saving money to afford an abortion especially if insurance won't cover it, take unpaid time off of work, and make multiple appointments. Healthcare should be accessible.
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Healthcare is a human right, and abortion is a part of of healthcare. We shouldn't be restricting access to healthcare, @SenateMajLdr.
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Your photo is of a healthy full-term newborn. Please read what the *doctor* wrote about later abortions.
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Making abortion illegal would leave women at risk for being accused of trying to abort if anything went wrong in a pregnancy. Any country with illegal abortion has women jailed who are suffering and probably innocent.
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healthcare is not a human right. If it's a right that means we can force doctors to give care for free. It's a consensual transaction between provider and patient. You should be forcing your "access" to my labor. that is a form of slavery, but so is abortion.
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