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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. This is an issue for me too, OP. I’m very pro-choice in first semester and I think women should be allowed to terminate at the anatomy scan (which is not always at 20 weeks, could be 1-2 weeks later to be fair). After that point, I think abortions should be banned unless there’s a very compelling medical reason for the baby or the mother.

I also hear things like “that almost never happens! Right wing talking point!” and if that’s true, I don’t see why anyone would have a problem with a law against it. It’s either happening or it’s not. And it shouldn’t, IMO.

I read something that said the vast majority of Americans have this middle of the road, sensible view on abortion. So I don’t know why we need to choose between one extreme or the other. The crazies on both sides drive me nuts.[/quote]

There is a law against it.  There is a federal law against infanticide if a fetus is born alive, which is what you are talking about if the fetus survives outside the womb.  If there are fetal abnormalities that are not compatible with life, then the baby would be given comfort care.  If the issue is the health of the mother, then if everybody does survive it’s a happy story.

No one is going around murdering healthy infants in a medical setting.

There are obviously tragic instances of infanticide or baby abandonment.  But really, abortion late in a pregnancy means the situation is dire.  That’s why the best people to make these decisions are the pregnant woman and her medical providers.

The government has no business making medical decisions.

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This post is really misleading. I read about how they perform later term abortions (beyond “take this pill and you will miscarry” early abortions) because like OP, I was curious, and it’s actually not the case that the babies are delivered in a peaceful way and then left to die. I read that their heads are punctured while they are inside the mother and/or they are dismembered while inside the mother. It is horrific and it’s what got me from being completely pro choice to pro choice only before viability except in special circumstances the way I am now.[/quote]

Please use more specific terminology. Who is the "they" you are referring to? What do you mean by "later term" - which week, which trimester?

Yes, it is true that if a woman is getting an abortion past a certain week she can choose to have a D&E done that makes it safer for her rather than go through the tortuous process of labor and delivery to expel the fetus. The procedure you are describing is also used on fetuses that are already dead. I'm sorry it makes you feel awful. You know that there's a lot of brutality involved in surgery in general, right? Amputations happen to living human beings. Have you ever seen open heart surgery? Brain surgery? It's horrific.

Personally I doubt you were ever "completely pro choice." You sound like a troll.[/quote]

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