On 09 Nov 2024, Mike Powell said the following...

 MP> 
 MP> In 2021, second and third trimester abortions only accounted for 7% of
 MP> total abortions in the 41 states (plus New York City) that report their
 MP> data to the CDC.  Only *1%* were in the third trimester.
 MP> 
 MP> So, depending on what you mean by "late-term,"  60% of 7%, or 1%, is not
 MP> that many at all.
 MP> 

There isn't too much you can say to convince me.

I am pro-life.  If there were laws passed tomorrow that outlawed abortion period I wouldn't loose sleep over it.  I have daughters and they are all in their reproductive years...  If they got pregnant so be it.

As a compromise in my thinking I said... Abortions in the first trimester... The baby during that time sort of resembles a clump of tissue.  Doesn't matter if you were raped... or you use abortion as a form of birth control.  1st semester.

Abortions after that point can't be elective... Don't get your calculator out and try to minimize the affect... Ooooooohhhh it's only a few 1000 or 10s of thousands... Its smaller than some rounding errors in the Federal budget ... Nancy made more on stock trades in 2024 so far than babies aborted late term.

I think babies have the rights given to them in the constitution.  At some point the person being terminated should have due process.

If their is a woman who wants to abort the baby late-term... She should have a Cesarean and put the baby up for adoption.

She could have aborted it when it was a clump of cells... why wait to have an elective procedure when it's a fully formed and viable human being.

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