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To clarify something in the first post, partial birth abortions are not performed after the 3rd month, they are performed after the 2nd Trimester- which is not 3 months.
Abortion breaks down like this:
1-12 weeks (you actually cannot get an ABORTION until at least 6 weeks but there are pills like RU486 you can take). this is the FIRST trimester and usually is D&C. A D&C Is the same procedure they use on women who have endometriosis and other complications. It is a common procedure used for OTHER THAN ABORTION purposes.
12-24 weeks- there are about 3 forms of abortions used... if the fetus is still early (more like 12 weeks than 15) they can still use D&C. Usually they use a mixture of giving the woman meds to make her dialate, then having her come back and do a D&C this causes a "miscarriag/abortion" type deal.
There is another method I don't really remember but is relatively new.
for 24-40 weeks there is partial birth abortions. Not many doctors will perform these, even at "abortion clinics". They are not pleasant and doctors have both moral and medical reasons for not usually performing these.
I am a prochoice advocate, but at the same time unless there is a HUGE problem with the baby or the mother's life is in danger, I don't think partial birth abortions are okay. My own opinion. But I don't want them "banned" because I know there are times when a woman would try to have a "back alley" abortion and that is too risky... keeping them legal keeps women and babies safe. Imagine a woman going for an illegal partial birth abortion, the woman gets severely injured and the baby is born alive with HUGE defects because of it? I don't want that happening either!
I have known 3 people in my life that had abortions, and it wasn't easy for any of them, and their reasons all differed... one of them I helped her research everything from adoption to abortion before she made her choice (this was years ago).
As for the religious side, leave that to the woman and God because none of us know how they reconcile (if they do) that. But I don't think it is any of my damn business.
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