`(A) the person performing the abortion deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother...
There's the problem. A partial-birth abortion does not require the entire head to be outside the mother's body, rather only enough to get at the back of the skull in a manner that allows the hideous procedure to be performed.
As this bill reads, as long as any portion of the child's head is still inside the mother's body, the same procedure will still be just as legal as it was. I've read several articles which stated that pro-life medical experts tried to get this language changed, to no avail. Ask yourself WHY language like this would be in the bill. If the goal is to ban partial-birth abortion, really ban it, then the language should be something like this...
the term `partial-birth abortion' means an abortion in which-- `(A) the person performing the abortion deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, any portion of the fetal head is outside the body of the mother...
That would truly ban the procedure, unlike the one that just passed, which lets politicians claim they did something, while in reality nothing has changed. Partial-birth abortion is just as legal as it was.
BTW, does your handle imply that you have ferrets?
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