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To: Krowbar who wrote (30576)	2/13/1999 2:46:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<Christine, I would not favor late term abortions for a healthy fetus and where the birth would not cause a probability of death for the mother. The latter would seem unlikely however. Like Elsa said, among others, there should be a cut-off time for a healthy fetus. It would have to be arbitrary though, as there is no clear cut time when a fetus is viable. There have been cases of women giving birth who didn't even know they were pregnant. Should they be given a choice if for instance they didn't find out that they were pregnant until say the sixth month? I dunno. Both sides of the issue need to try to come to a compromise.> Del, who doesn't find out they are pregnant until say the sixth month? I find it hard to imagine that many sane woman of normal intelligence would find themselves in that predicament, unless they are in utter denial. The physical changes of pregnancy are pretty hard to ignore, and come much earlier than six months. And should we legislate towards this extremely tiny minority? That doesn't make much sense to me. Where did personal responsibility go, anyway? Like, "oh dear, I got pregnant and didn't notice for six months, so maybe I should go ahead and have the baby and perhaps put it up for adoption instead of letting a doctor stab the back of its head open and suck its brains out for my personal convenience?" I think really that the largest number of late-term, partial-birth abortions are done on healthy fetusus of girls and very young women who were not mature enough to handle a pregnancy, and hide it from everyone because of sheer panic. I bet that if America somehow became more like Europe in the sense of complete and detailed nonjudgmental sex education and easily available birth control for teenagers, our abortion rate would drop to where theirs is. They also have astoundingly lower teenage pregnancy rates. Of course, the religious right for the most part is as against this concept as they are against abortion. Somehow, though, telling young women who are full of curiosity and sexual excitement to just keep their knees together does not seem to be an effective protector against pregnancy.