To Trent Franks, "legitimate" doctors agree with him.

[Archae]

Does Trent Franks know ANYTHING about actual medicine? Doesn't look that way.

In an interview with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins yesterday, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) once again expressed confidence that his bill banning abortion after twenty weeks will pass the House. The bill, known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, is set to come to the floor today. Franks framed the bill as a heroic attempt to protect mothers and children from “heartless monsters” like convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. While Gosnell was a criminal outlier, anti-choice activists have seized on his case to undermine reproductive rights. In an Akin-esque clarification, Franks stated “the medical community – that is, the legitimate medical community,” says that unborn children are able to feel pain twenty weeks. Franks’ source of “legitimate” medical knowledge appears to be a single 2007 paper that used rats as test subjects. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists actually opposes the bill, as well as the validity of the twenty-week pain threshold. -

See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rep-trent-franks-pushes-abortion-bill-questions-legitimacy-medical-opponents#sthash.3vwSghak.dpuf

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1. truth is, any asshole, idiotic person can become a u.s. rep.

[SoCalDem]

2. Trent may fear that babies with facial defects (as he had) might be aborted these days

Back then Moms did not have much access to ultrasound (if any). No matter their histrionics, Obama will veto if it gets past the senate.

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3. Um! Consider self-deleting your post.

This is not about facial deformities. It's about women's rights to determine their own health choices.

Your post is a bit offensive.

I will delete mine when you delete yours.