{"id":427,"date":"2009-07-15T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/quote-of-the-day-7.html"},"modified":"2009-07-15T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:12:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/quote-of-the-day-7.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;We now record fetal heartbeats at 14 days post-conception. We record fetal brainwaves at 39 days post-conception. And I don\u2019t expect you to answer this, but I do expect you to pay attention to it as you contemplate these big issues.  We have this schizophrenic rule of the law where we have defined death as the absence of those, but we refuse to define life as the presence of those.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">&#8212; Sen.Tom Coburn, speaking to Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/16\/us\/politics\/16confirm.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=print\">today&#8217;s confirmation hearing<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We now record fetal heartbeats at 14 days post-conception. We record fetal brainwaves at 39 days post-conception. And I don\u2019t expect you to answer this, but I do expect you to pay attention to it as you contemplate these big issues. 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