<<<<Neocon, here is a question I have yet to see a
pro-abortion person answer.
If it's legal to perform a partial birth abortion
and kill a viable baby. Should it also be legal for
you to experiment and disfigure the child for
medical reasons? Example's might include,
removing an eye, a leg, a heart, a lung, or
injecting the fetus with an experimental drug.
After all if it's a womens right to kill the child,
should it not be a womens right to do any thing
she pleases?>>>>
I believe in legalized, safe abortion, and I'll answer your question as best I can.
I don't believe in late term abortions except to save the life of the mother. I think that they are infanticide, and I don't think we should have legalized infanticide.
I don't believe a fertilized egg is an infant, unless a hardboiled egg is a chicken dinner.
It is often difficult to draw a line in life, but we do it all the time. I believe the line drawn at 26 weeks was drawn too late, and not marginally too late, either. As I said here once before, if nurses cry in the operating room, the line has been drawn wrong.
If Roe v Wade had made the window during which an abortion could be performed legally and safely three months instead of 26 weeks, those who want to force a woman who conceived the night before to carry the fertilized ovum until it becomes a human being would have little success in recruiting for their cause.
I feel comfortable with three months. I could be persuaded, maybe, that four months was reasonable. I think that's my outside limit. This is personal.
Partial Birth Abortion is complicated for me because i have read such different things about it. If it is true that it is only done to save the life or health of the mother, that's one thing. If it's just a particularly macabre, very late term abortion, I'm against it. But... the idea of having the government say that this particular procedure can not be performed if a doctor advises it, and knowing only that, that the doctor has said to the woman, "this is what you should have," gives me the major creeps, I must say. |
