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RE: 20 weeks abortion bill passes the HOR - 6/24/2013 11:57:57 AM

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Since it doesnt look like an answer will be given, the leading cause of death in premies is IRSD.. or Infant respiratory distress syndrome.

a syndrome in premature infants caused by developmental insufficiency of surfactant production and structural immaturity in the lungs.

IRDS affects about 1% of newborn infants and is the leading cause of death in preterm infants.

The incidence decreases with advancing gestational age, from about 50% in babies born at 26–28 weeks, to about 25% at 30–31 weeks.

Therefore, without adequate amounts of surfactant, the air-spaces collapse and are very difficult to expand. Microscopically, a surfactant deficient lung is characterized by collapsed air-spaces alternating with hyper-expanded areas, vascular congestion and, in time, hyaline membranes. Hyaline membranes are composed of fibrin, cellular debris, red blood cells, rare neutrophils and macrophages. They appear as an eosinophilic, amorphous material, lining or filling the air spaces and blocking gas exchange. As a result, blood passing through the lungs is unable to pick up oxygen and unload carbon dioxide. Blood oxygen levels fall and carbon dioxide rises, resulting in rising blood acid levels and hypoxia. Structural immaturity, as manifest by decreased number of gas-exchange units and thicker walls, also contributes to the disease process. Therapeutic oxygen and positive-pressure ventilation, while potentially life-saving, can also damage the lung.

In other words, physically, while the structure of the lungs is basically intact, there is no gas exchange.... the process of breathing is interrupted.

Or, the infant cannot breathe... exchange gas... as I stated before.

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RE: 20 weeks abortion bill passes the HOR - 6/24/2013 3:58:18 PM

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sweet jeeeebus on a cracker....apparently a texas republican 'representative" thinks that a rape kit in an emergency room is the same as a D&C.....in her own words, with video,

A reported 800 people turned out in Texas yesterday for the legislature's debate on anti-abortion bills that could close 37 of the 42 women’s clinics in the state. The House debate lasted 15 hours, and the vote happened around 3:25 this morning.

With Republicans in firm control of the chamber and united behind the bill, the outcome was not really in doubt. But as we have seen in Virginia, Wisconsin and Ohio -- to name a few -- the minority Democrats managed to get the bill's Republican supporters on record about their explicit belief that government has the right to control women's private medical needs and their understanding about what, in practice, that means.

Representative Jodie Laubenberg
Thus the Texas bill's sponsor, Republican Representative Jodie Laubenberg, found herself making this argument last night about why she opposed adding an exception for women who have been raped (apologies for the quality of the video, which is after the jump):

[I]n hospital emergency rooms, we have funded what’s called rape kits that will help the woman, basically clean her out. And then hopefully that will alleviate that.”

She was then interrupted by Democratic Representative Dawnna Dukes, who wanted to hear that part again, please:

Representative Laubenberg, you said these ladies would be able to acquire an abortion at one of the emergency rooms?

And so Laubenberg said it again, only more so:

In the emergency room they have what's called rape kits that the woman, she’ll get cleaned out, basically like a D&C, and emergency contraception, where they can also do the morning-after pill.

Now Laubenberg's "seeming confusion" about the kits used to collect forensic evidence will outlive this week in Texas legislative history, as will the issue of whether the courts will allow the state this level of decision-making about individual women's health.

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RE: 20 weeks abortion bill passes the HOR - 6/24/2013 4:07:59 PM

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Another who is totally clueless.... they need to put down the bible and pick up a medical book.

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RE: 20 weeks abortion bill passes the HOR - 6/24/2013 4:12:31 PM

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
In the emergency room they have what's called rape kits that the woman, she’ll get cleaned out, basically like a D&C, and emergency contraception, where they can also do the morning-after pill.

I'm pretty sure Texas passed one of those odious "conscience" laws that says a doctor or hospital who objects to abortion and/or contraception can not provide emergency birth control and not tell the woman it wasn't provided or that such is available elsewhere.

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