[tpaine]

I think there should be a "cut-off" time by which a woman has to choose whether to abort or carry the child to term. However, I don't know when that time should be. I'd have to study the gestation period and learn more about the development of a fetus.
-894-


From what I've read, -- the USSC established that 'cut off' point as being "viability"..
-- Prior to that time [defined as roughly the end of the second trimester] a state cannot prosecute abortion as murder.
After the first trimester, - abortion can be severely 'reguated' by the state, but not absolutely prohibited as a crime. - After viability, proscute as murder, and let a jury decide..
But in no case is abortion to be criminalized in the first trimester.

This is the constitutional way the matter rests as of now, to my knowledge. NO one on any side of the issue has come up with a better method of resolving the dilemma.

Sure a lot of shouting going on though..
As has been remarked here, much of the more fanatical only hurts the agenda of those most zealous..

[jwalsh07]

Well, you're wrong Paine. Roe v Wade opened the door for and Doe v Bolton ripped it off it's hinges so that now you can kill'em on the way out.

In other words 5 judges in black robes decided that killing babies was an unalienable right not to be legislated against by the states.

And the real irony here is that there are a good many libertarians and conservatives who have no problem with it.

[LanPB01]

I agree with the USSC's interpretation of "viability", but I'd still like to learn more about the actual gestation process.

[tpaine]

I think there should be a "cut-off" time by which a woman has to choose whether to abort or carry the child to term. However, I don't know when that time should be. I'd have to study the gestation period and learn more about the development of a fetus.
-894-


From what I've read, -- the USSC established that 'cut off' point as being "viability"..

-- Prior to that time [defined as roughly the end of the second trimester] a state cannot prosecute abortion as murder.
After the first trimester, - abortion can be severely 'reguated' by the state, but not absolutely prohibited as a crime. - After viability, proscute as murder, and let a jury decide..
But in no case is abortion to be criminalized in the first trimester.


This is the constitutional way the matter rests as of now, to my knowledge. NO one on any side of the issue has come up with a better method of resolving the dilemma.

Sure a lot of shouting going on though..
As has been remarked here, much of the more fanatical only hurts the agenda of those most zealous..
905 - tpaine


-- The above statment stands, logically unrefuted..