Abortionist Asked if Aborted Babies Feel Pain

An abortionist testifying in one of the federal trials in which the Partial-Birth

Abortion Act is being challenged seemed a bit taken aback Wednesday when
the judge asked him if aborted babies feel pain.

Dr. Timothy Johnson, a plaintiff in one of the challenges to the law, was
asked the question by U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey, who is presiding
over the case being heard in New York. Two other cases are under way in
San Francisco and Lincoln, Neb.

Johnson said he wasn't sure if babies felt pain, adding that there was no
scientific research on the subject. His statement, though unchallenged by the
Associated Press in its report on the trial, is not true: British researchers in
2001 found evidence that preborn children can feel pain as early as 20
weeks.

Casey then asked Johnson whether he ever thought about a baby being hurt
when he aborted it.

"I guess whenever I . . . " Johnson began before the judge interrupted.

"Simple question, doctor. Does it cross your mind?" Casey asked.

Johnson said no. Casey asked him again. Johnson said no again.

The judge also asked Johnson whether pregnant women were told that the
partial-birth abortion procedure involves "sucking the brain out of the skull."

"I don't think we would use those terms," Johnson said. "I think we would
probably use a term like 'decompression of the skull' or 'reducing the
contents of the skull.' "

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Sex Week at Yale? No Dumb Conservatives at Duke?
A Yale professor lectured on the "The History of the Vibrator" -- and on how
to be a better lover.
Those were just some of the vulgar topics students got to hear during
"Sex Week at Yale" -- the top winner in this year's list of on-campus
politically correct outrages compiled by the Collegiate Network, a
conservative student journalists'
network.

April Fools? Hardly. The student-sponsored event was a top finalist for the
Polly Awards because Yale University funds, facilities and school faculty
and administrators all played prominent roles. The events were co-sponsored
by an "adult" film company and even included a porn star as a keynote
speaker.

As bad as that is, it's the fourth-rated event that takes the cake, however.
It seems Robert Brandon, the chairman of the Philosophy Department at
Duke University, claims that conservatives are generally not smart enough to
teach at Duke.

"We try to hire the best, smartest people available," Brandon said. "If, as
John Stuart Mill said, stupid people are generally conservative, then there
are lots of conservatives we will never hire.”

Hmm. Makes you wonder what Duke thinks about conservative Christians.
Of course, it might fly in the face of Duke's mission statement, as expressed
on a bronze plaque on campus: "The aims of Duke University are to assert a
faith in the eternal union of knowledge and religion set forth in the teachings
and character of Jesus Christ."