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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
The 20 week ban is for show. The number of abortions occurring after 20 weeks is trivial and is cover for the more aggregious actions like requiring all abortion clinics to be outpatient surgical centers thus shutting down all centers in a state. The 20 week number is inflammatory and diverts attention from everything else that is going on. The vast majority of 20 week+ abortions occurring in the US are for fetal anomalies. This is like the partial birth abortion ban. It effected few but whipped up a fury because of the grisly nature of the procedure. There is no real desire to make a reasonable attempt to find the line at which a fetus becomes viable outside the womb (which is 22-23 weeks btw.)
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I think none of that, including the 20 week ban passes Casey. Casey says what's constitutional. At 20 weeks, maybe, theoretically, you could get a fetus to survive, but it hasn't been done yet.
The other issues are going to be shot down on a case by case basis. I can tell you that this being done to prevent women from being killed or injured by complications is ridiculous. If we want to compare the mortality rates for delivering a child vs. having an abortion, there'll be a lot of midwifes out of a job.
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