Outlawing Late Abortion Seemed Like Such a Reasonable Idea Until I Needed One Myself
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Before I found myself in this dire position, I never understood the need for third trimester abortion. In my naivety, I did not realize that extreme actions are inspired by extreme circumstances. Good people in hard times must do hard things. Government interference, like abortion bans, makes hard situations worse, forcing families to greater extremes. Care becomes dangerous, and tragedy is compounded. Women and families in these devastatingly complex situations need trust and support, and that’s why organizations like NARAL fight for families like mine
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Of course, this is the exception for late term abortions. Per the abortion supporting, Guttmacher Institute, late term abortion are performed for substantially the same reasons as early abortions, and not for mother's health or fetal abnormality.
Odd. The only study I found reported by the Guttmacher Institute excluded data about women whose fetuses had abnormalities. I'd say it's hard to make a definitive statement about data that was purposely excluded.
Here's a direct quote:
"But data suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment."
Yeah, that's the one I found.
That is not the same as saying "late term abortion are performed for substantially the same reasons as early abortions...."
Late term abortions may be sought out, but that doesn't mean they are being performed. Big difference.
Actually, yes it does. Please read the literature.
Please point it out.
Cite the source! According to the Guttmacher Institute , most states do not allow late term abortions unless the woman's health or life is at stake.
It is always easy for others to say what is right or wrong when it is not their body, or not their child. IMHO, it is not their business to tell others what they should or should not do with their own body, or in situations that does not involve their own child when they do not know all the facts, or even if they do, because of their own religious beliefs.
The only one who has the right to judge is a far higher authority than anyone here on earth. So those who choose to sit in judgement of others are even far more wrong than those they choose to judge.
Just my own opinion.
EXACTLY!
there is no need for laws on abortion
Conservatism wants to control everything. Tolerate ( it ) at your peril.
Fortunately for the majority of those around here who support outlawing or applying more restrictive government supervision they will never need one, which means they can continue to preach their anti-freedom silliness from their pulpits
Personally knowing a case like this, I totally get it.
WHAT DO DOCTORS SAY ABOUT LATE- AND FULL-TERM ABORTIONS?
Dr. Lawrence K. Koning: “As an Ob/Gyn physician for 31 years, there is no medical situation that requires aborting/killing the baby in the third trimester to save the mother’s life. Just deliver the baby by c/section and the baby has 95+% survival with readily available NICU care even at 28 weeks. C/sections is quicker and safer than partial birth abortion for the mother.”
Dr. Omar L. Hamada: “I want to clear something up so that there is absolutely no doubt. I’m a board certified ob/gyn who has delivered over 2,500 babies. There’s not a single fetal or maternal condition that requires third trimester abortion. Not one. Delivery, yes. Abortion, no.”
Dr. David Mcknight: “As a board-certified practicing ob/gyn for over 30 years, I need to say publicly and unequivocally, that there is NEVER a medical reason to kill a baby at term. When complications of pregnancy endanger a mother’s life, we sometimes must deliver the baby early, but it is ALWAYS with the intent of doing whatever we can to do it safely for the baby too. The decision to kill an unborn baby at term is purely for convenience. It is murder . . . God help us.”
So, the woman in the seeded article wasn't carrying a fetus with a severe abnormality? Her doctors lied to her?
It's also used when a mother is at high risk for DIC a condition that causes the mother to bleed out.
As we all know, bleeding is bad. No bleeding is best.