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Originally posted by Munchkin03
Supposedly, this "dilation and extraction" method is the best one for preserving the mother's future fertility, as it doesn't involve salination or cutting of the uterus. Also, it is one of the only late-term abortions that keeps the fetus's body intact--allowing the family to have a burial or memorial service, as well as allowing the body to be used for medical research. I think the procedure is pretty terrible, but I think it has to remain legal for the health of the mother as well as cases where fatal genetic illnesses are detected late in pregnancy.
Let's get real--random women at 25 weeks aren't getting this 'cause they decided they didn't want a baby anymore.
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Health of the mother? How is that? They actually must birth the baby (all but the head), then insert a needle into the skull to suck out the brains.
At this point, the child is birthed. If you actually go through with this birthing process, I see no possible way that this could be to protect the health of the mother. Please enlighten me.
I'm not completely anti-abortion. However, this method is something that is disgusting and in many ways wrong. At 25 weeks, a fetus can actually be viable to survive outside the womb with current medical technology.
Imagine a scenario where a "health of the mother" clause was inserted. Do you think that even 10% of the cases, no, even 1% of the cases would actually be done to avoid post-birth complications?
Nope -- because as I said, the whole birthing process happens anyway in this procedure so that's a pretty moot argument.