(May 22, 2014 at 2:24 pm)pocaracas Wrote: I prefer to give it a cool off period to decide... it seems 20 weeks is a good limit, as it's when a nervous system seems to become in working order and so, before that, there's no pain, no awareness whatsoever by the fetus... just a denial of service.
I don't support the 20 week limit. Only 1% of all abortions are performed after 20 weeks. Many fetal abnormalities can't be detected until the 20th week.
The 1% figure means that the 20 week limit is designed to solve a problem that doesn't exist to any significant extent. There's nothing reasonable or compromising about this. The only thing it will do is make it illegal for already distraught parents to seek an abortion after learning the child that they are eagerly expecting will be born with a defect.
