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To: Earl Risch who wrote (11193)	10/27/1998 2:42:00 AM
From: Borzou Daragahi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Should the state protect the life of the child in the process of being born, in the last week of gestation, in the last month, etc.? You and I don't have to agree on the answer, but the government can not avoid this decision, IMO. Let's look at the real world. Does the government need to be involved? First off 90 percent of abortions occur in the first trimester, when the fetus does have some features distinguishing it as human, but remains wholly unsustainable outside the womb and easily susceptible to miscarriage. My gut reaction would be to call for the arrest of any doctor who performs an abortion on a fetus which has already come to term or is close to coming to term, i.e. in the late second or the third trimester, unless it can be proven that the mother's life would be endangered otherwise. But I would think that any doctor who performed an abortion on a fetus that could sustain itself outside of the womb is violating his own hippocratic oath. Couldn't a medical ethics board punish him/her? I don't understand why anyone would abort a fetus that has come along that far when you can induce birth at that point. Over the past couple weeks I've spoken to a number of my women friends, some of them radical feminist-types, and they all bristle the very notion of an abortion when the fetus could easily be brought to term outside the womb. I don't at all why the so-called PBA issue is one dividing Americans. According to some on this thread, mouths are watering in the feminist camp as they lustfully attempt to allow women to abort babies a week before they are due. But I've yet to actually meet anyone or of any real person who advocates such abortions on demand. No one has yet responded to my post requesting a link to a mission statement of an abortion rights group that calls for third trimester abortions on demand. As for any woman who would try to kill her own fetus at six or seven months--without the aid of a doctor--that person needs to be institutionalized, or "pink papered" in the jargon of beat cops, as a danger to herself.