FredHayek wrote: You think that no mothers have ever killed their newborns after birth?
Give me examples. You often talk about last trimester abortions, how they can be performed up to birth. Prove that it happens, just as you have described. Show me that women, who have carried a fetus for 39+ weeks, elects to abort their child days prior to giving birth.
I assume that is what you were insinuating in your post:
Yes, better to kill them right as they come out of the womb! Don't give them an opportunity to have any kind of life.
Since you think late term abortions never happen, then you won't have a problem compromising on new abortion bills that ban them.
Most clinics already refuse to perform abortions at 20 weeks, so it is time to codify it into law.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
You apparently think that late term abortions are commonplace. I've asked you to provide examples that that is true. Since you haven't provided any examples, perhaps they are not as common as you think?
No, I don't. Which is why I think the Left should be willing to concede giving up late term abortions to reach a compromise. Over 60% of American voters don't support late term abortions.
It would just be a tiny percentage of babies that the Left wouldn't get to kill.
You would still get to kill the great majority of fetuses.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
If you don't think that late term abortions are common, then why do you continually bring it up as if it is common?
It's my understanding that the majority of the extremely rare late term abortions are done for the health of the mother. I don't think that procedure is done as elective surgery to "get rid of the child" as you seem to think.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell is charged with murder in the deaths of seven babies and one woman
Ex-employee at a Philadelphia abortion clinic tells court of doctor cutting babies' necks
More than 10 babies were born alive at the facility, medical assistant Kareema Cross testifies
Philadelphia
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A former medical assistant testified Thursday that she saw more than 10 babies born alive at the West Philadelphia abortion clinic where she worked for a doctor who is now on trial for murder.
Kareema Cross also saw babies or fetal remains in a toilet, a plastic box and jars.
Cross said Gosnell regularly performed illegal late-term abortions that he routinely recorded as “24.5 weeks.” In Pennsylvania, abortions past 24 weeks are illegal unless the health of the mother is at stake.
Cross graphically described witnessing Gosnell cut the necks of several babies while she worked at the clinic. She recalled being present for more than 10 instances in which babies were delivered alive by patients given abortion drugs.
“Were those babies breathing?” Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore asked.
Obviously, that doctor is a criminal. Can you give me examples of women who have elected to abort their fetus the week before their due date? You, and other conservatives on this board, make it seem like late term abortions are common, when in fact, they are not.
Obviously these eight women did. Or do you think that he he kidnapped and forced them to have a late-term abortion?
I am comforted that you agree with me that what he did was criminal, performing a late term abortion. He was charged and convicted of murder of these infants.
I have seen no posts on this board that say late-term abortions are common.
Last edit: 18 Nov 2022 14:25 by ramage. Reason: typo