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Your post simply recapitulates the backdrop for my question to you.

The legislation establishes under what circumstances a PBA is legal, and under what circumstances it isn't. It also extablishes penalties for breaking the statute. All well and good, we agree on that. I'm just trying to get a handle on the practical application of this law, and how it will be enforced, fair enough?

Now, again, my question...

A woman walks into an abortion mill intending to have a legal PBA. She goes into a room with a doctor and nurse who intend to perform a legal PBA. Some time later, all three emerge from the room and the woman's pregnancy has been aborted.

Did a crime take place?

How would you know?

I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens. ]

Just curious though.. How would you suggest that ANY law against abortion be enforced? If they can't enforce this law, how could they enforce an out and out ban on all abortion?

I honestly don't know how abortion doctors work but I know my OB was required to answer to the hospital's board of physicians (or something like that, can't remember what he called them) when babies were born with complications around the delivery. He wanted to induce labor early but told me that if he induced before 39wks he had to answer to them as to why he did it and give them reasons why or his hospital priviledges could be revoked. That meant I had to wait until 39wks before he could do it. Maybe abortion doctors need some sort of board they answer to detailing what procedures they do and how they are done? Also, how do they get rid of the baby when the abortion is complete? Wouldn't that be evidence against them? Don't you think that pro-life activists will also be breathing down the abortion dr's throats for a while as well? No law is 100% enforceable. It's a step in the right direction though.

A woman walks into an abortion mill intending to have a legal PBA.

After the passage of this bill, there will be no form of legal partial birth abortion.

Find me some other form of PBA that is currently in practice. If it's likely that abortionists will start performing PBAs some other way to get around this legislation, as you attest, you ought to be able to find something concrete to defend your position.

Otherwise you are creating theories out of thin air. I didn't take you for that type.