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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article discusses 3 women who had abortions. The first woman had hers at 35 weeks - she had to got to Colorado. Read it to understand why this happens.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/18/late-term-abortion-experience-donald-trump

[quote]The day of the MRI finally arrived. She was 35 weeks, 0 days. By the end of it, Kate and her husband had the hardest answers they’ve ever received.

Their daughter had moderate to severe Dandy-Walker malformation. But that wasn’t the only diagnosis; Laurel also had a brain condition in which fluid builds up in the ventricles, eventually developing into hydrocephalus and possibly crushing her brain. She had a congenital disorder too, in which there was complete or partial absence of the broad band of nerve fibers joining the two hemispheres of the brain.

What this meant was Laurel was expected to never walk, talk, or swallow. That was if she survived birth.

Kate asked her doctor: “What can a baby like mine do? Sleep all the time?”

“Babies like yours are not generally comfortable enough to sleep,” the neurologist said.[/quote][/quote]

I don’t think I’d chose abortion in that scenario but I cannot really say I think it should be outlawed. [/quote]

She chose an abortion because the baby was not going to survive, and would be in pain and distress for his entire short life because his brain was so malformed.

The story of another woman who had a 3rd trimester abortion due to her child also having brain abnormalities incompatible with life:

[quote]We learned that because of the severe brain anomalies, our baby would have had on-going seizures 70% of the time. And that was best case scenario. Our daughter would lack the physical coordination to suck, swallow, feed, walk, talk or know her environment—if she survived birth at all. The sonogram already showed the baby was not swallowing. And in hindsight, I believe her constant, non-stop movements—movements that I so lovingly joked about throughout the pregnancy as being payback for having a calm, easy-going first child—were the result of spasms caused by the brain abnormalities.

If we had carried our baby to term, we would have needed a resuscitation order in place prior to giving birth as she was incapable of living without significant medical assistance.

We did not want our daughter to exist solely because of machines. We did not want to bring a child into this world that would only be here in a vegetated state, if at all. For our baby, for our son, and for our family, my husband and I made the heartbreaking decision to terminate the pregnancy. We did what I believe was the most loving, humane act a parent could do—put an end to our baby’s suffering.

Because I was late in my pregnancy, I had to travel to Colorado to one of a handful of facilities in the U.S. that provides later abortion care. It was awful to go through the hell of ending my very much wanted and loved pregnancy and to have to do it across the country, so far from my home and loved ones.[/quote]

https://prochoice.org/statement-of-dana-weinstein-on-harmful-impact-of-smith-bill/[/quote]

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