ERBetelgeuse wrote:
AP, that is what the right preach about abortions.  I was told that by a staunch Republican where I work.  I looked up percentage of late term abortions and there wasn't a stat on it.   

What do you think a partial-birth abortion is?  Why do you think it was outlawed?

18 US Code 1531
 Pub. L. 108-105, Sec. 2, Nov. 5, 2003, 117 Stat. 1201, provided that: ``The Congress finds and declares the following:

``(1) A moral, medical, and ethical consensus exists that the practice of performing a partial-birth abortion--an abortion in which a physician deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living, unborn child's body until either the entire baby's head is outside the body of the mother, or any part of the baby's trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother and only the head remains inside the womb, for the purpose of performing an overt act usually the puncturing of the back of the child's skull and removing the baby's brains) that the person knows will kill the partially delivered infant, performs this act, and then completes delivery of the dead infant--is a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and should be prohibited.  

``(2) Rather than being an abortion procedure that is embraced by the medical community, particularly among physicians who routinely perform other abortion procedures, partial-birth abortion remains a disfavored procedure that is not only unnecessary to preserve the health of the mother, but in fact poses serious risks to the long-term health of women and in some circumstances, their lives. As a result, at least 27 States banned the procedure as did the United States Congress which voted to ban the procedure during the 104th, 105th, and 106th Congresses.

http://frwebgate2.access....&WAISaction=retrieve

I have a extreme liberal friend on a Yahoo board who loves to say about pro-lifers but he calls them Republicans.  "Republicans for life right upto birth".  What he is talking about is how the prolifers want a woman to carry a fetus to term and after the baby is born, then it is like throwing the baby out with the bath water because they don't say how those babies are to be taken care of it the mother is a poor person and a heck of a lot of them would do away with all social programs which would help that woman.

Adoption?



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