I’d like for this author to put forth one single example of when a partial birth abortion is necessary to ensure the health of the mother.
That argument is completely nonsense. The child is essentially delivered at that point, anyway.
This jackleg of an author needs to do a little better job representing reality if he’s going to be fair to this issue.
He is advancing an agenda. He has no interest in being fair.
“I’d like for this author to put forth one single example of when a partial birth abortion is necessary to ensure the health of the mother.”
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I refer the Senator to the State of Kansas where they have to report the reason for a partial-birth abortion; 182 were done last year, or the year before, and of those 182, none—zero—were done because of a problem with the child or a physical problem with the mother. They were classified as mental health.
So I suggest to the Senator that those in the abortion industry themselves say this is the typical procedure on the typical baby. There may be—and there are—a small number of cases that are late-term where you find out the child within the womb has a fetal abnormality and may not live. I just suggest—and you used the term—where is the brainless head? Where are the lungs outside the body? I will just say I will be happy to put a child with a disability up there. But, frankly, I don’t see the difference in my mind—and I am not too sure the public does—with respect to that being any less of a child.
It is still a child, is it not? Maybe it is a child that is not going to live long, but do we consider——
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