According to Planned Parenthood, under "Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships", "Sexual abuse includes unwanted touching, fondling, watching and talking, and being forced to look at another person's sex organs."
plannedparenthood.org
ah, but that section was under the heading "Teen Issues", so I guess that doesn't apply to "adults" like Clinton. So I guess that is why Planned Parenthood won't back Paula Jones, but instead defends Clinton.
under "Abortion", "Abortion and the Law", and "Why Planned Parenthood Opposes S.6/H.R. 929 and Other Attempts to Ban a Safe and Needed Abortion Method", and "S. 6/H.R. 929 Deliberately Creates Confusion About Abortion and Its Incidence" (you have to click titles to get there):
"After the point of viability, abortions are rare and are performed to protect the life and health of women. There is no evidence that healthy women carrying healthy fetuses are able to obtain abortions after the point of viability. To our knowledge, no doctor has said he has performed an abortion after viability on a healthy woman with a healthy fetus; no woman has said she had an abortion in that circumstance."
and under "Abortions after 24 Weeks of Pregnancy":
"Only one out of every 10,000 women who have abortions have them after 24 weeks. These are performed only when there is a serious threat to a woman's life or health or if the fetus is severely deformed."
then we find, on the same site, under "Abortions after Fetal Viability":
"In addition to abortions for medical indications such as these, abortions after viability also are sought by a very small number of women in extremely difficult life situations, such as very young girls who conceal their pregnancies or who may be victims of incest; women who abuse alcohol or other drugs; or women who suffer severe mental or emotional impairments."
under "What Is Fetal Viability?", we see:
"A fetus is viable when it reaches an "anatomical threshold" when critical organs, such as the lungs and kidneys, can sustain independent life. Until the air sacs are mature enough to permit gases to pass into and out of the bloodstream, which is extremely unlikely until at least 23 weeks gestation (from last menstrual period), a fetus cannot be sustained even with a respirator, which can force air into the lungs but cannot pass gas from the lungs into the bloodstream.(5) •While medical advances have increased the survival of infants born between 24 and 28 weeks of gestation, the point of viability has moved little over the past decade; at the earliest, it remains at approximately 24 weeks, where it was when the Supreme Court decided Roe"
then under "How Is Viability Determined?"
- Viability is a medical, not a legal term. The point of viability varies with each pregnancy and must be determined by physicians on a case-by-case basis, as recognized by the Supreme Court in cases since Roe.
- In Colautti, the Supreme Court defined viability as occurring "when, in the judgment of the attending physician on the particular facts of the case before him, there is a reasonable likelihood of the fetus' sustained survival outside the womb, with or without artificial support."
- In Danforth, the Supreme Court said, "[I]t is not the proper function of the legislature or the courts to place viability, which essentially is a medical concept, at a specific point in the gestation period ... and the determination of whether a particular fetus is viable is, and must be, a matter for the judgment of the responsible attending physician."
"In the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which established the right to abortion throughout the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the constitutional right to privacy extends to the decision of a woman, in consultation with her physician, to terminate a pregnancy. That right, according to the court in Roe, is not absolute and must be balanced against the state's legitimate interest in protecting both the health of the pregnant woman and the developing human life. According to Roe, at the point of fetal viability (when the fetus has the capacity for sustained survival outside the uterus), the state's interest in protecting potential life becomes compelling, and the state may proscribe abortion, except when necessary to preserve the woman's life or health.
In Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth(1) (1976) and Colautti v. Franklin(2) (1979), the Supreme Court made clear that viability is a medical determination, which varies with each pregnancy, and that it is the responsibility of the attending physician to make that determination." |
