Newsweek Op-Ed Blasts Sonia Sotomayor’s ‘Abysmal Ignorance’ of Basic EmbryologyThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
7 Dec 2021
During oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, “Justice Sotomayor displayed abysmal ignorance of the most basic scientific and medical facts about developing human life,” states a December 6 Newsweek op-ed.
The essay, written by Grazie Pozo Christie, M.D., notes that Sotomayor claimed that only an eccentric “small fringe” believes fetal pain exists “before 24, 25 weeks.”
“She could not have been more wrong,” Dr. Christie asserts. “A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that a fully developed cortex is not necessary for the transmission of pain sensations, which may be present as early as 12 weeks.”
Physicians “routinely protect their youngest patients — fetal and premature — from pain,” states Christie, a Senior Fellow for The Catholic Association. “A baby born at 21 or 22 weeks receives anesthesia routinely during any intervention. Anything less would be considered barbaric.”
“The same goes for fetal surgeries performed in the second trimester, in which the fetus is removed from the uterus, anesthetized and operated on, and then returned to finish growing inside her mother,” she adds.
Together with two other female physicians, Dr. Christie submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court last July detailing advances in fetal science that have happened since 1973, many of which seem to completely elude Justice Sotomayor.
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