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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Only the real nutjobs would drop health (since, generally, "health" includes "will having this baby kill her?") and the super-nutjobs drop life. The loony reasoning is "doctors would lie." Yeah, so?Why am I thinking that the ban on so-called "partial birth" abortions does not make an exception for the health of the mother?
Tom DeLay indicted. Again.
Why am I thinking that the ban on so-called "partial birth" abortions does not make an exception for the health of the mother?
My understanding is that the ban on Dilation & Extraction abortions does not mean that all late term abortions are banned. It simply places a ban on the preferred method. There are other methods, but these put the mother at a much higher risk for complications.
My understanding is that the ban on Dilation & Extraction abortions does not mean that all late term abortions are banned. It simply places a ban on the preferred method. There are other methods, but these put the mother at a much higher risk for complications.
Yeah, it's even just Intact D&E, IIRC. But I don't really want to get into it.
It simply places a ban on the preferred method. There are other methods, but these put the mother at a much higher risk for complications.Am I right in thinking there's an exception for the life of the mother with the D&E (thanks--the term completely slipped my brain, before), but not for her health?
As far as I understood the ban, it was, "No way, no how, no matter what. Even Mom." I could be wrong.
Why am I thinking that the ban on so-called "partial birth" abortions does not make an exception for the health of the mother?
That's why the Congressional ban got flipped by the SCOTUS -- no "life and health" clause.
Some think the eliding of "health" was the real test of the SCOTUS, not the ban on D&E.
Thanks Jesse.
It's not even really a ban on D&E in the language, I don't think -- it's all this inflammatory non-medical language.
I do think Republican strategists are afraid of not having abortion as an issue. There are other issues like gay marriage and ethuanasia, but I don't think you get the same kind of traction as with abortion and Bush didn't exactly get landside victories against two of the least charismatic candidates out there.