Let me tell you as a physician about partial birth aboritons in the 3rd trimester. I deliver babies. That child that has been delived except for the head can feel pain. They move and wiggle. I can not imagine how any moral person could at that moment could stick sissors into the bottom of the skull and suck the brains out. It is inhumaine and never medically necessary. That is a LIE. Just go ahead and deliver the head and a live baby. There is no medical reason to kill it at that time except to kill it. What is keeping us from delivering the head and then smashing it with a rock. One minute. Answer that one.
Finally a doctor that may be able to answer this. In all this time we have been told that the partial birth abortion has to be protected because of the threat to the mother's life without it. Could you explain to me how after delivering the entire baby EXCEPT the head that delivering this last and smallest part would/could endanger the life of the mother. I mean I know, you'll say "well it doesn't", so I'm just curious how "they" can hold on to this concept without it being questioned.
Neither could I, until I had a friend faced with the awful choice of having one.
She found out at 5 or 6 months that her baby had an abnormality that was causing the brain not to develop. Moreover, there was some kind of encephaly (is that where the head swells?) that was causing the mother to be endangered. The baby was alive and would remain alive with the life-support of the mother, but would die moments after birth. There was also some risk given the growth of the head, though I don't know if it was considered life-threatening.
The doctors told her she could carry it to term and deliver it to die or have the procedure. It was an awful choice for her - but she chose the procedure.
I don't generally advocate it - but would you take it away from someone in this circumstance?