Reply #18: The procedure [View All]

[Ramsey]

Technically, all abortions not carried out through a Ceasarian section allow the fetus to be "born", in that they are performed transvaginally. Most surgical methods require some type of extraction. The later in gestation, the less available other methods become (like medical abotifacients), because of the size of the fetus. But just remember that late term abortions (meaning late second trimester or any third trimester) are ALREADY almost exclusively done for a threat to the mother's life or severe fetal anomalies. Believe it or not, there are still plenty of women in this country without adequate health coverage and without access to adequate prenatal medical services, so it is entirely conceivable that fetal defects (many of which are incompatible with life) are discovered late in pregnancy. And usually because the mother has been made ill.

The whole argument by the right is just so much inflammatory rhetoric with no scientific basis designed to upset people. No physician would ever extract a viable living fetus only to intentionally kill it part way through the procedure. Clearly any viable fetus would be delivered alive if at all possible. That is why this bill is so ridiculous and unnecessary. Doctors already try to preserve the life of the fetus whenever possible. Late term abortions are never used for "contraception" because no doctor would consider it ethical.