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Originally Posted by JHC
The only area in which you and I differ is the particular brutality of partial birth. I will make one more argument on this front to show that the particular methodology is no more heinous than any other.
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Refering back to post #143, the difference is not necessarily the
level of brutality, but the
need for that brutality.
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Originally Posted by JHC
And having said that, I can again justify the incorrectness of the ban based on there never being a necessity to abort a fetus in late stages. "Never" is unqualified and therefore immediately a misstatement. There are cases, have been cases and will be cases in which such decisions must be made. It is, has and always will be a condition of mankind.
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I'm a little confused here. This ban doesn't say that it will never be necessary to abort a fetus in late stages. It just says that, when that must happen, this particular method isn't the way to do it.
I predict that the general population doesn't like the idea of abortion-on-demand in the mid-to-late stages of pregnancy. However, I also predict that they are extremely wary of banning procedures that might be needed to preserve the life/health of the mother. That's why they don't support any blanket ban on late-term abortions.
This procedure was presented as one which is never useful for preserving the life/health of the mother (and thus far, no one has explained why it would be), and which was almost always done in the mid-to-late stages. Consequentially, it was a natural target.