abortion: reducing abortions and retaining women's rights.

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Originally Posted by bryantm3

you don't believe that an unborn child retains any rights?

legally, a child doesnt have "rights" until its born and breathing. Before 24 weeks a woman can do what she wants. And in fact, most abortions are done in the first few weeks. Very few happen after that. 2nd trimester is 15-24 weeks. From what i've read, only 1.5% of USA abortions happen after 20 weeks. And most of those are for life/death/medical reasons rather than for spiritual/political/other reasons.

If a womans waters break the baby is a certainty to die after 20 weeks, its not gonna "avert death" or cause “serious physical impairment of a major bodily function� of the pregnant woman to proceed with an abortion, but its gonna cause infection and trauma. Mental trauma of being legally compelled to give birth to a dead or dying baby is hard enough without making it illegal.

Great article in the Times about abortion after 20 weeks: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/us...n.html?_r=1&hp