About 1% of all abortions are late-term. The right wing has made a cottage industry out of pretending that thousands of women are changing their selfish minds at the last moment and having this procedure. It’s not true. You couldn’t find a doctor who would perform it.
It’s used when going through with the birth would endanger the woman’s life. What part of that don’t you understand? The Santorums had a case where continuing the pregnancy would endanger the mother’s life. Do you understand the difference between the two? One must end the pregnancy by giving birth to a stillborn in order to save her life, the other must end the pregnancy without delivering a dead baby. It has to be removed.
Here is what the Supreme Court has held:
• even after fetal viability, states may not prohibit abortions “necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother;”
• “health” in this context includes both physical and mental health;
• only the physician, in the course of evaluating the specific circumstances of an individual case, can define what constitutes “health” and when a fetus is viable; and
• states cannot require additional physicians to confirm the physician’s judgment that the woman’s life or health is at risk.
Now Congress, in the partial birth abortion ban act of 2003, found that late term abortion is never used to save the life or health of the mother.
CONGRESS found this. Do you understand that? Do you understand what that means?
I suggest you speak with a medical professional, not on the payroll of the anti-choice movement, who has an understanding of the tragic and catastrophic circumstances this procedure is used in. I find it laughable when righties whip the moral outrage about “the left” “using” the “worst thing that can happen to a parent”.
WE KNOW it’s one of the worst things that can happen to a parent. That is why we have always stated: BUTT OUT.
Now, there are many on the right who are always playing semantics. In fact, the entire right plays semantics. It’s murder if you terminate the pregnancy because delivering the baby would kill the mother (oh wait, that didn’t go over well! I got it, let’s claim that we know that NO late term abortions are ever used to save the life or health of the mother. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s it! That’s the ticket! The doctors and the women are lying! That’s it! Yeah!) but it’s “God’s will” if you induce labor so early that there is no chance the child will not be stillborn. You can claim “ a miracle may occur”. Yeah, well if you believe in miracles guess what? One may occur in a late term abortion too – in fact, isn’t the whole “Born alive” comedy series based on just that?
However, IMO, this is just semantics . That is my opinion. You can disagree, but to claim that I started this thread as an attack on the wife, is so hateful and dishonest. IT’s a claim made by alias, a hate-filled dope fiend who has been making racist and sexist posts about Michelle Obama since he got here and is now lying about this thread in order to justify them.
He’s a hateful little bastard who I have on IA because I can’t take the constant stream of hate. But that anyone here “thanks” his posts, says a lot about the people here.
If the article I posted was an attack on anyone (and it was), it was an attack on Rick Santorum. Not on his wife. On her husband who would force other husbands to watch their wives die if they were not medically able to go through with the delivery and give birth to a dead baby, but rather had to have it medically removed dead. And that is my opinion, if I may be so bold as to speak for myself.
*winkers*