Partial-birth abortion is a bit sick, but other than that... rock and roll, ladies.
Dilation & extraction (aka partial birth abortion) can actually be a safer method of performing a late termination than dilation & evacuation as the latter risks leaving parts of the fetus in the uterus, increasing the risk of infection. It is grisly, but they were rare enough prior to the uproar resulting in the 'PBA' ban that it should be recognized as a smokescreen to advance an agenda that threatens reproductive autonomy.
Of course, but that doesn't take away from it being grisly and that the infant should be viable at that point. Child rape is relatively rare... shall we leave that unpunished and permissible?
Well, if your concern is with the age of the fetus, your problem is not so much with 'partial birth abortion' as a procedure and more to do with its viability regardless of how the termination is conducted. What I'm trying to say is that a ban on 'partial birth' doesn't target these late term abortions, but rather a specific way of performing them. The comparison to child rape is not helpful.
If you lack a desire to prohibit late-term terminations but still support a ban on the D&X procedure, I recommend researching the opposition to this ban, as it was actually extraordinarily rare and generally used only for reasons to protect the health of the mother.
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