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RE: What are your thoughts on Intact dilation and extraction(aka Partial Birth Abortion)?
April 26, 2015 at 6:32 pm
If a pregnancy has gone on long enough for the neo cortex and nervous system to develop, and the mother's health doesn't become an issue, you may as well carry it to term.
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RE: What are your thoughts on Intact dilation and extraction(aka Partial Birth Abortion)?
April 26, 2015 at 7:03 pm
I am uncomfortable with it but I don't think it is a common procedure either. People against legalized abortion like to focus on late term abortions as if every woman that gets an abortion is waiting until her third trimester
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RE: What are your thoughts on Intact dilation and extraction(aka Partial Birth Abortion)?
April 26, 2015 at 7:33 pm
It's no skin off my nose.
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RE: What are your thoughts on Intact dilation and extraction(aka Partial Birth Abortion)?
April 26, 2015 at 7:42 pm
Not a fan. Mostly that's because there are much easier, safer, and cleaner ways to go about getting an abortion, and you have a wide ass window of time in which to get those done. Most of the time there's simply no need to wait that long, and those circumstances in which there is a need... well, then it's probably going to be a medical necessity more than anything else.
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RE: What are your thoughts on Intact dilation and extraction(aka Partial Birth Abortion)?
April 27, 2015 at 1:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 1:45 am by Razzle.)
Just make sure it doesn't suffer. From my brief reading there, it looks like it doesn't, at least in general, but just as much care should be taken to ensure the fetus doesn't suffer as to make sure the mother doesn't. Same with the extremely late term abortions (some of which I would call murder, though not of someone who probably fears death or enjoys life yet, which does make a difference in my opinion) in which what genuinely is an actual baby by that point, right up to 90 days in, is poisoned in the womb before being born. They'd better give it anaesthetic first or I call abuse. Bearing in mind they didn't stop doing every kind of major surgery on newborns without any anaesthetic, just a drug to paralyse them, until the late 80s, and most baby boys in North America are still tortured by circumcisions with no or inadequate pain relief both during and after the procedure, because of persisting but proven wrong beliefs that babies feel less pain than anyone else, I have doubts about how careful they are. But provided they're required to prevent it feeling anything, I think people who die before birth are the lucky ones, even when I'm in a good mood.
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