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Two advocates repeatedly declined to answer Rep. Mike Johnson’s questions about abortion Thursday – underscoring the tension surrounding Texas’ controversial law and the debate over when life begins.
Johnson, R-La., had pressed Stephanie Loraine Piñeiro, the co-executive director of Florida Access Network, and Texas OB-GYN Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi about whether abortion ended a human life.
“Does abortion kill something that’s alive – take the life of something that’s alive?” Johnson asked Moayedi.
Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi testifying for a House Judiciary hearing on Texas’ abortion law on Nov. 4.
She responded: “Sir, the way that you’re asking these questions actually intentionally invite[s] violence and harassment to both of us – to all of us.”
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Johnson asserted that her response was “absurd,” noting that she was a medical doctor. He went on to ask, “When you dismember something in the womb, is that a human being or not? It’s a living being, yes or no?”
Moayedi replied that she was there to discuss medical care, prompting Johnson to defend his question as relating to just that. “Is it a life? Yes or no?” he added.
“What you are discussing is not the reality of how abortion care is delivered in this country,” she said.
“You know, if we were in a court room, I would say that that’s nonresponsive,” Johnson said.
The House Judiciary Committee was discussing Texas’ abortion ban, which restricts the procedure to before a heartbeat can be detected, which is around six weeks.
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According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, an unborn baby’s toes can be seen and its lungs, ears, eyes, arms and legs start to form before the end of the first trimester. Between nine and 12 weeks after conception, a baby’s face becomes well-formed, genitals appear and nails appear on the fingers and toes.
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