[honeygrl]

We were promised a ban on partial birth abortions. This bill bans partial birth abortions. Therefore we have been betrayed

From the part I read, it doesn't ban them though..

In what can only be described as the mildest abortion restrictions that one could possibly put into words, Sec.1531 instructs the "doctor" to make sure and kill the child before "in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother". Or "in the case of breech presentation", make sure the child is killed before "any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother". (Actual text of SB S.3 in quotes)

[omegatoo]

The description of how to perform 'legal' PBA is taken out of context in the original post in that it quotes the definition of PBA in the bill and then rails that anything other than that is allowed. Of course the bill can't ban every abortion, or it would never see the light of day, but to take the definition of what is banned and turn it around to say that this bill legalizes everything else is misleading to say the least.

On rereading Sir Gawain's questions, I do think that this bill would be better if it used "the mother's womb" instead of "the mother's body" as a mark, but I still think it is a reasonable bill. It would be nearly impossible to perform a PBA without the naval or the entire head exposed, so this bill WILL stop some abortions.

More importantly than this, however, there will now be restrictions on what can and cannot be done. This means that every time an abortion is performed, the abortionist is now subject to rules that if violated can send him/her to jail. That changes the playing field immensely and I think is more important than the actual description of WHAT is banned. What abortionist can be sure of the loyalty of their entire staff when one belly button can send you to jail? I like the idea of them constantly having to look over their shoulders, I think it will slow them down and even push some of them to stop performing these procedures just because of the risk of a belly button slipping out.

Sorry to be so long, but I just thought of this, too. If a belly button does slip out, the abortioninst now has to (horror of horrors) deliver the baby. Now you have a live, premature, critical care baby. That means all abortion centers will have to have the means to resusitate those babies or face mega malpractice awards from disabled kids. Not to mention that their malpractice insurance is going to go through the roof. Will they have to have pediatric intensivists on call? Incubators? Respirators? PICU trained nurses? Hey, I think I've stumbled on something great here!

Love, O2