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He was obviously asking about viable pregnancies.

by ryan93 4y ago

wonnage 4y ago
Who decides if a pregnancy is viable? If we go back to coat hanger abortions and render fetuses “unviable” that way, is everything peachy keen? If not, then are miscarriages now occasion for criminal investigations? Pro-life logic is garbage
- entropicdrifter 4y ago
  >If not, then are miscarriages now occasion for criminal investigations? In several states, this is now true
PuppyTailWags 4y ago
That's not how late-term abortion actually works. Practically all late-term abortions are wanted children who for one reason or another don't work out. They are cases of extensive tragedy. Banning very late pregnancy termination directly means that doctors will not be allowed to save lives because it will mean ending the pregnancy. When crafting law it is vitally important to understand how this would realistically affect people.
filmgirlcw 4y ago
He’s not though because anyone who follows this knows that late-term abortions are almost entirely situations where the fetus is incompatible with life (an actual medical term), there are ridiculous risks to the mother’s life, or other very sad scenarios. I’ve never even heard of modern cases where perfectly healthy fetuses were aborted at late stages. I’m sure that they have happened, but the rarity of it happening — not just because so few doctors do that work for medically necessary reasons and even fewer would do it for someone who just changed their mind, but because it is a prohibitively expensive procedure ($25,000 or more). This 2016 interview with a woman who had an abortion at 32 weeks after she found out her fetus would not survive outside the womb and who then had to suffer through 24 hours of labor and have her dead child ripped from her womb (and prior brain surgery meant she couldn’t push), really paints a picture of the terrible reality for anyone forced to be in a position to terminate a pregnancy at such a late stage: https://jezebel.com/interview-with-a-woman-who-recently-had-an-abortion-at-1781972395 https://jezebel.com/interview-with-a-woman-who-recently-had-...

He was obviously asking about viable pregnancies.

by ryan93 4y ago

He was obviously asking about viable pregnancies.

Who decides if a pregnancy is viable? If we go back to coat hanger abortions and render fetuses “unviable” that way, is everything peachy keen? If not, then are miscarriages now occasion for criminal investigations? Pro-life logic is garbage

entropicdrifter 4y ago
>If not, then are miscarriages now occasion for criminal investigations? In several states, this is now true

PuppyTailWags 4y ago

That's not how late-term abortion actually works. Practically all late-term abortions are wanted children who for one reason or another don't work out. They are cases of extensive tragedy. Banning very late pregnancy termination directly means that doctors will not be allowed to save lives because it will mean ending the pregnancy. When crafting law it is vitally important to understand how this would realistically affect people.

filmgirlcw 4y ago

He’s not though because anyone who follows this knows that late-term abortions are almost entirely situations where the fetus is incompatible with life (an actual medical term), there are ridiculous risks to the mother’s life, or other very sad scenarios. I’ve never even heard of modern cases where perfectly healthy fetuses were aborted at late stages. I’m sure that they have happened, but the rarity of it happening — not just because so few doctors do that work for medically necessary reasons and even fewer would do it for someone who just changed their mind, but because it is a prohibitively expensive procedure ($25,000 or more). This 2016 interview with a woman who had an abortion at 32 weeks after she found out her fetus would not survive outside the womb and who then had to suffer through 24 hours of labor and have her dead child ripped from her womb (and prior brain surgery meant she couldn’t push), really paints a picture of the terrible reality for anyone forced to be in a position to terminate a pregnancy at such a late stage: https://jezebel.com/interview-with-a-woman-who-recently-had-an-abortion-at-1781972395 https://jezebel.com/interview-with-a-woman-who-recently-had-...