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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (16128)	11/27/1998 3:33:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

pezz, Please read the following procedure and give me an example of a woman who would have her health at risk but not her life at risk if she went through with giving birth. It seems to me this is simply a word game. Can you help me here? I'm really trying to understand this.. The Partial Birth Abortion Procedure It is performed at any time in the fifth month of gestation or later. The woman's cervix is dilated, and the fetus is partially removed from the womb, feet first. The surgeon jabs a sharp object into the back of the fetus' head, removes it, and inserts a vacuum tube through which the brains are extracted. The head of the fetus contracts at this point and allows the fetus to be more easily removed from the womb. The exact number of PBAs performed is impossible to estimate with accuracy. Many states do not have strict reporting regulations. One often quoted figure was that over 1000 PBAs have been performed annually in New Jersey. From this number, many inflated national totals have been estimated. But the New Jersey figure appears to be an anomaly. Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, estimated (Nightline program, 1997-FEB-26) a total of 3 to 4 thousand annually in the US; i.e. about ten a day.