This is disgusting and vile. These people are the definition of evil. May there be a special place in Hell for them.
This.I dont care if or when anybody gets an abortion.I just dont think my tax dollars should pay for it.
I was repeating what the politician said OSPB. I'll check for the quotes on my diploma. Don't remember them there.This.
Clearly most here couldn't be bothered to read the bill, as usual.
But either way, nobody has the right to inhabit the body of another.
Fun Fact: Death does NOT occur when the heart stops beating. You'd think a "doctor" would know that.
Nah. Once in a while I just need a good reminder of what a putz you are OSPB.Did something in the rearview mirror distract you from your running away?
My aunt was born at 24 weeks because of medical complications. She’s 40-something now.
A fetus is totally viable at this time. The fact that you can abort up to this time is medically irresponsible and straight up murder
Thank you for your clarification. I hope you are correctI knew this discussion was going to come up and I am not posting to agree or disagree with any of your views on abortion. Do what you want, but that's not what this post is about.
This law is not about killing babies right up to their due date. MadScientist posted two important lines here and that's what is important. As he pointed out, a baby is viable at 23ish weeks.
From Googling viability stats: "According to studies between 2003 and 2005, 20 to 35 percent of babies born at 23 weeks of gestation survive, while 50 to 70 percent of babies born at 24 to 25 weeks, and more than 90 percent born at 26 to 27 weeks, survive. It is rare for a baby weighing less than 500 g (17.6 ounces) to survive." So babies at 23 weeks are gonna have to go in the egg warmer for a while, but they will make it.
From the article, posted here "Such late-term abortions are rare. About 1 percent of abortions nationwide are performed after 21 weeks, according to the Guttmacher Institute."
Here is the law as well (click link)
Yes, it does remove the penalty for having an abortion past the previously allowed mark, but since we established that nobody is getting them past that mark, what it's actually doing is making it legal for the few times that someone does need one. The article mentions a story about a woman who had to go to Colorado when she discovered that her baby at 31 weeks was not going to survive outside of her body, even after incubating or whatever other common medical practices they do to help babies who are born early or with defects.
This also protects women who have had a baby die inside them and the body has not passed it yet. Instead of carrying around a dead fetus inside her after 24 weeks, she can get it removed and not be penalized for it.
Again, this law is not being passed so that women can wait until they decide they don't want the baby at 30 weeks and they then kill the baby before or after removal. That baby, like MadScientist's aunt, is viable and will survive outside the womb.
Nobody is pulling a baby out and giving it a lethal injection or cutting its head off just because it's Wednesday. That's not how this works. This "late-term abortion" has too many people riled up who are already against abortion in the first place, and now think they're straight up murdering babies who can survive on their own.
As for the 1% of abortions being performed after 21 weeks, these are the "health of the mother" or "viability of the child" ones, not the "Oh, I changed my mind and I don't want this thing anymore. Suck it out." Those happen in alleys with coat hangers and aren't tracked.
Also important to consider: the term abortion has a different legal/medical meaning than the everyday use, much like "firearm" does. What we call a firearm and what the law defines as a firearm are different things, as we've debated here a few times (from what I remember). The medical use for an abortion is defined as, "inducing labor prior to viability." Viability is the key word there. It's being removed before it can live by itself outside of the body, which we showed up top as being around 23 weeks. When most people hear abortion, they think, "They're just going in and killing the thing." Removing a (naturally) dead fetus from a woman's body is considered an abortion just as much as going in at 12 weeks and removing a bunch of cells that haven't formed into a baby's body yet.
So again, nobody has legalized infanticide and I'm not going to tell you what to think on abortion, those are your views and we're all entitled to them. I just thought I'd bring some facts into something that I know a lot of people are fired up about.
I got to 3:15 and couldn't go any further. I really don't know how docs do that type of procedure and sleep soundly at night.
Facts are often not appreciated around here.I knew this discussion was going to come up and I am not posting to agree or disagree with any of your views on abortion. Do what you want, but that's not what this post is about.
This law is not about killing babies right up to their due date. MadScientist posted two important lines here and that's what is important. As he pointed out, a baby is viable at 23ish weeks.
From Googling viability stats: "According to studies between 2003 and 2005, 20 to 35 percent of babies born at 23 weeks of gestation survive, while 50 to 70 percent of babies born at 24 to 25 weeks, and more than 90 percent born at 26 to 27 weeks, survive. It is rare for a baby weighing less than 500 g (17.6 ounces) to survive." So babies at 23 weeks are gonna have to go in the egg warmer for a while, but they will make it.
From the article, posted here "Such late-term abortions are rare. About 1 percent of abortions nationwide are performed after 21 weeks, according to the Guttmacher Institute."
Here is the law as well (click link)
Yes, it does remove the penalty for having an abortion past the previously allowed mark, but since we established that nobody is getting them past that mark, what it's actually doing is making it legal for the few times that someone does need one. The article mentions a story about a woman who had to go to Colorado when she discovered that her baby at 31 weeks was not going to survive outside of her body, even after incubating or whatever other common medical practices they do to help babies who are born early or with defects.
This also protects women who have had a baby die inside them and the body has not passed it yet. Instead of carrying around a dead fetus inside her after 24 weeks, she can get it removed and not be penalized for it.
Again, this law is not being passed so that women can wait until they decide they don't want the baby at 30 weeks and they then kill the baby before or after removal. That baby, like MadScientist's aunt, is viable and will survive outside the womb.
Nobody is pulling a baby out and giving it a lethal injection or cutting its head off just because it's Wednesday. That's not how this works. This "late-term abortion" has too many people riled up who are already against abortion in the first place, and now think they're straight up murdering babies who can survive on their own.
As for the 1% of abortions being performed after 21 weeks, these are the "health of the mother" or "viability of the child" ones, not the "Oh, I changed my mind and I don't want this thing anymore. Suck it out." Those happen in alleys with coat hangers and aren't tracked.
Also important to consider: the term abortion has a different legal/medical meaning than the everyday use, much like "firearm" does. What we call a firearm and what the law defines as a firearm are different things, as we've debated here a few times (from what I remember). The medical use for an abortion is defined as, "inducing labor prior to viability." Viability is the key word there. It's being removed before it can live by itself outside of the body, which we showed up top as being around 23 weeks. When most people hear abortion, they think, "They're just going in and killing the thing." Removing a (naturally) dead fetus from a woman's body is considered an abortion just as much as going in at 12 weeks and removing a bunch of cells that haven't formed into a baby's body yet.
So again, nobody has legalized infanticide and I'm not going to tell you what to think on abortion, those are your views and we're all entitled to them. I just thought I'd bring some facts into something that I know a lot of people are fired up about.
Facts are often not appreciated around here.
OSPB!As long as they're posted, that's all I care about
OSPB!