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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (6649)	4/10/2009 4:43:51 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

Late term abortions are illegal or strictly controlled now. Not so much as you might think. The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act only banned a method of abortion not abortions based on development or term. The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act only deals with living infants outside of the womb, not most late term abortion situations. The medical personnel in Gianna Jessen's situation did treat her as a person and a patient after she was outside of her mother, so they wouldn't have run afoul of this law. It wasn't the later treatment which damaged her but the abortion itself, which would still be legal today. Maybe some state laws have changed things, but for many states I can't think of or find any new laws or regulations which change how abortion is treated and regulated in a relevant way. Where they are legal, they are only performed when the fetus is a disaster or the woman's life is at risk except for perhaps the occasional renegade doctor. That isn't true. Most late term abortions would be performed for such a reason but performing them for other reasons is legal and does happen (and not just with the "occasional renegade doctor")

To: Lane3 who wrote (6649)	4/10/2009 5:20:01 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I see Tim has already responded to you with some good points. I will add that Obama is a strong supporter of the FOCA and if that is resurrected, the things you wrote will change for certain. But when the crack fetus has cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome, and no nose, it's ridiculous to make heroic efforts to keep it alive. Many or most physical deformities can be fixed by surgery. We don't consider palsy or Downs death penalties separately, so I don't why they s/b together - in the unlikely event they occur together. I think we're on shaky grounds deciding someone else's life isn't worth living.