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Originally Posted by pknopp
I never said that. There were very few doctors performing them. Numbers are irrelevant. Not many people rob banks either but it's still wrong.
When we first looked to ban this procedure the doctors that were performing these noted that they were mostly "purely elective".
After viability there is never a reason to intentionally kill a fetus.
Is this a biased source? It is but the testimony is what it is.
And I'll be quite frank: most of my abortions are elective in that 20-24 week range. . . . In my particular case, probably 20% [of this procedure] are for genetic reasons. And the other 80% are purely elective.
https://www.nrlc.org/archive/abortio...pbafact10.html
You do not know "people" who had abortions after 20 weeks unless you worked for one of these doctors and we will note that in your second scenario, there was no abortion performed.
A generalization that means nothing. |
Your link is from a pro-life organization that provides information from 1996, which was 21 years ago.
Again, I personally know people who have had this procedure due to fatal anomalies of the fetus. They wanted the baby.
That does not mean that that is the only reason for it being done later in the pregnancy.
However, I do not wish to impart my personal views on anyone's family situation. Most women get abortions because they don't want to be pregnant or to be a mother to a child (or another child). I respect their decision and don't feel that children should be born to people who decide they don't want a child or cannot take care of a child or they have some other sort of personal problem (like drug use or lack of finances) to properly care for a child. I respect a woman who knows her limits and who especially puts her already born children and their needs before a unwanted pregnancy. I would hope they make that decision earlier in the pregnancy, mostly because abortions become more dangerous as the pregnancy progresses. But I respect the decisions of women, their families and their medical providers to live their lives as they see fit. So even if they are elective, I don't think it is any of my business.
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