What's your Abortion Policy?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

If you can take the infant out and it can survive on it's own, or would have a chance to, then that must be done.  Other than that I'd oppose any restrictions on the ability to obtain an abortion. 

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

I find myself moving left on this issue, too.  Honestly.  Whatever.  A woman can do whatever she wants.  If not going to pretend that I ever lose sleep over the unborn because I don't.  If that makes me an HP, whatever, but I refuse to play a martyr and feign personal concern where there is none. 

Partial-birth abortion is a bit sick, but other than that... rock and roll, ladies.  

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

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? 

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

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.

I was under the impression that partial birth abortion was the preeminent method of performing any kind of late-term termination.   That said, to clarify; I am opposed to any method of abortion that would terminate a fetus that is viable with exception to rape, incest, and life of the mother.  (I include rape and incest because in such dreadful situations I would not think to put some kind of time limit on the woman to have the abortion, as I can imagine the entire situation has been, and will continue to be, quite traumatizing.)  So, that being said, if partial-birth abortion is rare, and used mainly in cases where it would help to save the mother's life, than I can't be opposed to it IN THOSE CASES.