Fetal Personhood and Rand Paul
Channel: meleagrisfelis
Date: 2012-06-27

Fetal Personhood would lead to chaos - Rand Paul holds up flood bill

Rand Paul - Fetal Personhood:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/rand-paul-fetal-personhood-flood-insurance_n_1628128.html
Update:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/rand-paul-fetal-personhood-flood-insurance_n_1628128.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&utm_hp_ref=politics

Arizona Law:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/13/arizona-abortion-law-2012-pregnancy-fetus-ultrasound-late-term-abortion-20-weeks-jan-brewer_n_1422853.html

My First Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-5jO4ccj4&feature=plcp

SOURCES:
GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contr_use.html
GUTTMACHER SOURCES
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Table 2: annual estimates of the resident population by sex and selected age groups for the United States: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2008, no date, http://www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/NC-EST2008/NC-EST2008-02.xls
Mosher WD and Jones J, Use of contraception in the United States: 1982--2008, Vital and Health Statistics, 2010, Series 23, No. 29.

PREGNANCY STATS
Wilcox AJ, Baird DD, Weinberg CR (1999). "Time of implantation of the conceptus and loss of pregnancy". New England Journal of Medicine 340 (23): 1796--1799. doi:10.1056/NEJM199906103402304. PMID 10362823. 
Wang X, Chen C, Wang L,  Chen D, Guang W, French J (2003). "Conception, early pregnancy loss, and time to clinical pregnancy: a population-based prospective study". Fertil Steril 79 (3): 577--84. doi:10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04694-0. PMID 12620443

 http://www.emcom.ca/health/abortion.shtml 
University of Ottawa R. Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment
The incidence of spontaneous abortion is estimated to be 50% of all pregnancies, based on the assumption that many pregnancies abort spontaneously with no clinical recognition.
 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001488.htm
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends
It is estimated that up to half of all fertilized eggs die and are lost (aborted) spontaneously, usually before the woman knows she is pregnant

PERCENTAGE OF BIRTHS IN THE US
NCHS: In 2002, there were 4,019,280 births in the United States, down slightly from 2001 (4,025,933).
National Center for Health Statistics Web site.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/Default.htm

THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY FOR CHOICE
http://www.gopchoice.org/about_us.asp

COALITION FOR SECULAR GOVERNMENT:
Why it matters that a fertilized egg is not a person
http://www.seculargovernment.us/docs/a48.pdf