Wendy Davis: You know, that paraplegic Greg Abbott has never walked a mile in my shoes

@Nanny G:

Publicly running away from one’s own core beliefs has got to cause headaches and stress.

Davis can’t run on her own core beliefs. And her actions, such as those when she was on the Fort Worth City Council, is her record and she cannot run from that. Now, she’s saying she wants to let people keep their concealed carry in their vehicles while at work. What? Does this woman ever stop and think what she is saying? What is to prevent you from keeping your licensed hand gun in your vehicle if you are parked at work? Is someone going to go through your vehicle illegally? Are employers in Texas asking employees to sign a document stating they will not have their personal fire arm in their personal vehicle? In Texas, I am allowed to openly carry a long barrel in my vehicle and if I have a hand gun, it must be concealed (glove compartment, trunk, under the seat).

Texans are going to know that she is simply punting here. She is poorly informed, and it shows. Like I said before, she is a back benching lightweight that is blowing up her own campaign.

@Greg:

I won’t quote the remainder of that paragraph. Suffice it to say that you’re striving to persuade with shock and horror, while presenting an argument that makes no sense whatsoever.

Actually, it seems that your response is exactly what I expected. You are also saying that an actual abortion, or the watching of it, would be shocking and horrific. On that part, we are in agreement. But you don’t answer because the answer would make you uncomfortable. And bottom line, it was a simple question; have you personally witnessed an abortion?

It’s not always necessary to have personally witnessed a thing to formulate an informed opinion about it.

That is true, but less so in the case of abortion.

Nor are you presenting an accurate general description of what’s under discussion.

ROTFLMAO. I didn’t “present an accurate general description” of an abortion at all. More dance of the Dervish from Greggie.

This is about as honest as suggesting that a graphic account of a 13th Century execution by drawing and quartering is an accurate representation of capital punishment in present-day Texas.

Again, your spinning. It is impossible for me to return to the 13th century to witness an execution by drawing and quartering. It is possible for me, if the opportunity presented itself, to witness the carrying out of a capital punishment in Texas. So you are trying to compare apples (13 century past) to oranges (modern day Texas).

If you are the quality of the hires of OFA, no wonder Obama’s approval rating is dropping like a rock.

@drjohn: lDr J, not to get into your business, but Greg did answer that in 45 above when I asked him:

So, brain activity is a measure of humaness? At what stage of decline of brain activity do you kill off the human cells?

and he answered:

That’s another example of moving the argument outside of its current context.

Once a person exists, that person has a full range of human rights.

@Pete: Excellent comments, Pete. An egg in a woman starts growing the instant it is fertilized. An acorn starts growing the instant it is fertilized. The acorn at that point is a minature tree. The human at that point is a minature person. Both real and living. The only thing that will stop either one from reaching maturity is death.

Quick eval for brainwave activity – and interestingly lifted from a pro-abortion blog, quoting an article from the New England Journal of Medicine:

P.R. Hickey, published in NEJM:

“Functional maturity of the cerebral cortex is suggested by fetal and neonatal electroencephalographic patterns…First, intermittent electroencephalograpic bursts in both cerebral hemispheres are first seen at 20 weeks gestation; they become sustained at 22 weeks and bilaterally synchronous at 26 to 27 weeks.”

This is a quote from a medical research paper primarily discussing the use of EEGs to determine brain death….in people older than neonates. The pro-abortion blogger was trying to delegitimize the use of this quote by pro-life folks in a rather confused manner. But one point she made that has scientific accuracy is that even people determined by EEG to be “brain dead” still have electrical activity that can be measured – as the brainstem can still generate the electrical signals to initiate breathing and changes in heart rate as regulated by the Reticular Activating System in the brainstem. Those electrical signals are not generally considered the same as EEG activity measured from the cerebral hemispheres indicating organized higher brain function. The pro-aborts want to use this distinction as justification for their claim that the fetus is “not human” prior to the onset of organized cerebral brain activity as measured by EEG. That is an illegitimate and completely disingenuous argument.

Here’s why. Brain death as determined by absence of cerebral brain waves on EEG measurements in a human who previously had normal brainwave activity is highly highly HIGHLY unlikely to recover and/or return to normal. (Even patients who are comatose tend to have some kind of cerebral electrical activity.) Those individuals who have suffered brain injury so severe that they are not going to recover – as determined by the absence of cerebral EEG brainwave activity – that is a completely different situation from a fetus. The fetal brain is actively growing and developing to the point of beginning to generate EEG measureable activity – even disynchronous activity – as early as 18-20 weeks. In other words, at the fetal stage of human development, it is a normal state to NOT have measureable EEG activity until there are sufficient synaptic connections for the onset of brainwave activity. The fetus is developing in a normal fashion on the continuum of human existence. This is completely different from the brain damaged individual who has no EEG activity – as it is NOT normal for such activity to return.

Regardless, the various excuses and rationalizations the pro-aborts come up with to justify the slaughter of the unborn are nothing but poor attempts at camoflaging their selfishness of not wanting to be inconvenienced – for whatever reason – by the birth of another person.

GREG
you forgot to mention the talk in the room’ OF WENDY DAVIS
about depicting her oponant’,
he talk slow’he is this he is that and he is handicap, ah ah ah ah ah,
JUST TO SAY HOW IT CHANGE WHEN YOU FORGET A COUPLE OF LINES,