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John Bockmann
@realBockmann
fetal pain | 🧠 + 🫀 | better conversations
Aug 21, 2023 • 40 tweets • 12 min read
Life in prison for killing preemies? Be honest: in today's abortion culture, this nurse got a raw deal. "Consilience" - I’ll approach this question from the rear (pardon the expression) by invoking the problem of evil, which everyone agrees is real.

If morality is likes and dislikes, then the problem of evil evaporates. But if evil is objective, as we actually treat it, then it is indeed a real problem.

Thoughts?
Aug 19, 2023 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
The argument that a human being starts to exist at conception is really a definition, not an argument.

It's what the word "conception" means. 🧵1/11 Image Conception is what happens when a sperm meets and fertilizes an egg.

That's it. 2/11 Image
Nov 27, 2022 • 40 tweets • 14 min read
This time, I’ll examine key #2 to fetal pain:

4D ultrasound studies of fetal behavior that show fetal planning and even pain from the earliest gestations studied—

14 to 23 weeks, before the supposed consciousness barrier of 24 weeks.

1/26
Before beginning this discussion, I want to acknowledge the only reason any of this matters:

Jesus Christ died so we may live.

2/26
Oct 24, 2022 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
"Choice." Here, folks, is one of many connections between the transgender and abortion atrocities.

"Choice" as a guiding principle may justify anything at all. That's why satanists love it. Image Baphomet ImageImage
Mar 27, 2022 • 33 tweets • 11 min read
Me @ National Review: plenty of science has changed since Roe v. Wade in 1973--namely, the emergence of fetal surgery and fetal pain/anesthesia.

It had to fit into 800 words, which galled me, so I've also tweeted the ~1,000-word version below. bit.ly/3iEyZkn President Biden refers to Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson, his Supreme Court nominee, as a “consensus builder.” Consensus is good, all things considered. But it’s not everything. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Dec 5, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
For those wondering about Justice Sotomayor's assertion that "there are spontaneous acts by dead-brain people" in up to 40% of the cases,

here's what she means: *spinal reflexes*

But... BUT. "Spontaneous acts" sounds a lot more sophisticated than what's actually happening, and that's intentional. It's equivocation.

What may a heart-beating dead person do?

- simple withdrawals of the feet
- patellar (knee) reflexes
- abdominal contractions

Etc.
Dec 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Please enjoy this random picture of 3-year-old Charlotte I found just now. I guess she was tired. For context: this is kinda how she lived
Dec 4, 2021 • 23 tweets • 10 min read
Does the Bible view the fetus as worth less than her mother, perhaps not even a full human being like her mother or mother's attacker?

I've been discussing this with @PGAntioch--quote-tweeted below, with permission--so I decided to write a quick thread. 🧵 The question hinges on Exodus 21:22-25:

"If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall surely be punished...and he shall pay as the judges determine."

blueletterbible.org/kjv/exo/21/1/t…
Aug 17, 2021 • 52 tweets • 17 min read
Can a fetus feel something like pain before viability, perhaps even by 15 weeks’ gestation?

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (@acog) has long said no, but increasing evidence suggests that the answer is yes.

I'd like them to reconsider their stance. 🧵 I’ll examine ACOG’s “Facts are Important” statement on fetal pain in light of what we know today, then make recommendations for changes to ACOG’s position. acog.org/advocacy/facts…
Jul 21, 2021 • 30 tweets • 12 min read
"A fetus is not a baby." 🧵

My older daughter, Emily, at 8 weeks' GA: If you’ve ever debated against abortion, you’ve probably noticed it’s nearly impossible to discuss the actual topic.

Instead, the exchange rapidly devolves into accusations—often, that you’re using inaccurate terminology. This irate doctor’s Twitter post is a good example:
Oct 28, 2020 • 22 tweets • 10 min read
1. On fetal pain, most media cite 1 of these 2 studies:

-Lee, et al. in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 2005) bit.ly/3jroNtG
-Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG 2010)

For clarification & context, I'll discuss JAMA 2005 here. 2. Context:

Both say pain only possible w/ functional cerebral cortex (I call this "cortical necessity")

▫️ JAMA 2005: pain not possible before 29-30 wks
▫️ RCOG 2010: pain not possible before 24 wks, maybe never due to what I call "fetal sleep"

US fetal pain laws claim 22 wks
Oct 26, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I watched @Mighty_Ira_doc last night and was surprised at how much I loved it:
- Americana / NYC / history
- 1st Amendment; I'd thought the ACLU = "bad"
- Ira comes across warmly; friendship with Wm Buckley incredibly poignant
- Powerful: Heather Hyer's mom & Holocaust survivor As a transient, upstate New Yorker, I've grown fond of NYC and appreciate Ira's wistful recollections of Brooklyn

Ira's boyhood love of Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers, an integrated baseball team, must have helped him see "others" as legitimate, preparing him for ACLU