Arizona women would be pregnant 2 weeks before conception

[stopstaaron]

Lol wut? I really don't know what to say anymore.. it's left me speechless, I just have to laugh

http://rt.com/usa/news/arizona-bill-conception-abortion-387/

Under Arizona’s H.B. 2036, the state would recognize the start of the unborn child’s life to be the first day of its mother’s last menstrual period. The legislation is being proposed so that lawmakers can outlaw abortions on fetuses past the age of 20-weeks, but the verbiage its authors use to construct a time cycle for the baby would mean that the start of the child's life could very well occur up to two weeks before the mother and father even ponder procreating.

On page eight of the proposed amendment to H.B. 2036, lawmakers lay out the “gestational age” of the child to be “calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman,” and from there, outlaws abortion “if the probable gestational age of [the] unborn child has been determined to be at least twenty weeks.”

[kimmy]

I read about that yesterday, and at first it seems insane, but after doing a little reading I learned that calculating the time of gestation from the date of the last menstrual cycle is standard practice in the OB/GYN biz, and that every law that considers fetal age follows the same convention. So despite the WTF headline, this is actually a non-story.

The real WTF story going on in Arizona is the law that will provide legal protection to doctors who deceive women if they think it will prevent an abortion.

-k

[CPCFTW]

I read about that yesterday, and at first it seems insane, but after doing a little reading I learned that calculating the time of gestation from the date of the last menstrual cycle is standard practice in the OB/GYN biz, and that every law that considers fetal age follows the same convention. So despite the WTF headline, this is actually a non-story.

Par for the course from the lefty fanatics.