Pro-abortion forces have kept the nation in an uproar for over two decades, largely based on the claim that nobody knows when life begins.
If we use the absence of brain waves to determine that a person's life has ended, why shouldn't we use the presence of brain waves to determine that someone's life has begun?
This is a reasonable and logical way to settle this issue, but the pro-abortion people are unwilling to accept it. The fact is, when a woman is pregnant and we can measure brain waves coming from her that aren't hers, it seems reasonable to speculate that those brain waves are not coming from another life.
Another issue abortion enthusiasts will bring up in an effort to discredit the brain-wave suggestion, is that there is not a clear consensus about when "genuine" brain waves occur. They claim that some scientists say they don't exist until as late as the fifth or sixth month. However, this is just a smoke screen. The existence of "genuine" brain waves is not required to determine that someone who is comatose from an injury, or old age, is alive--only simple brain waves. The reality is, brain waves either exist or they don't, and that is determined by their ability to be measured.
We may need an independent medical study of when fetal brain waves begin. But most Americans would probably be willing to use the same standards to determine when life begins as we now use to say when it ends. It's not really very complicated. If the medical community has already given us a yardstick to determine when life exists, why won't abortion advocates agree to use it?
Maybe it's because they're afraid that if they rely on science and the will of the people, they'll lose.