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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Co-sign.
Although I am very pro-choice, I don't think women should be having abortions that late in the game unless there is a medical reason such as the health of the mother, etc. However, I think this bill was just a step in the anti-abortionist's attempts to illegalize abortion altogether.
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This case won't make it through the Supreme Court. States have proposed similar laws, but were struck down by the Court if they didn't take the woman's health into account. I can't imagine why this would be different.
Very, very few abortions are "partial birth" and those that are have a variety of reasons behind them. The three most common are threats to the woman's health that are not identified until late in the pregnancy, fetal abnormalities that are (often) not identified until late in the pregnancy, and denial that she is pregnant/inability to deal with the pregnancy. Many times, young girls, those who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest, those who don't have correct information about pregnancy ("you can't get pregnant your first time"/"pulling out is an effective method of birth control" etc. myths), or simply those who aren't emotionally or financially ready to deal with the possibility that they're pregnant will deny it or just don't know that they're pregnant. This kind of situation can lead to fetal abnormalities or complications with the pregnancy -- i.e., the girl who thinks she isn't pregnant because she only had sex once and she used a condom so she keeps on partying like a rock star and the baby develops deformities because of her alcohol consumption.
I'm not so worried that this bill is outlawing D&X abortions, but more worried because I've heard the language of the bill will make it easy to chip away at more and more abortion rights. The fact that there is nothing about the woman's health taken into account is also somewhat frightening.