>  AI> I see a woman making a decision for herself and her future.

> Then we will never agree on this. I see the baby in the womb
> as just as alive and a SEPERATE PERSON as the woman is.

I see it as a separate person at the point in time where it can viably live
outside the womb without being on life support.  Until it is capable of
living outside the womb, it is not a separate person.

> Again, in Tennessee there are no reports of this. There are people claiming
> it happens, because it goes against what they are pushing, but it's not
> actually happening.

The reason there are no reports of that in Tennessee is because a
three-judge panel in October ruled that, contrarty to Tennessee law,
doctors cannot be punished for providing abortion services in emergency
situations (where the mother is at risk).

There is currently a lawsuit challenging Tennessee's restrictive abortion
ban.  If Tennessee should win the lawsuit, these emergency services will go
back to being banned.  You will then start seeing reports of women being
turned away and possibly dying because care was denied.

Google "Tennessee cannot discipline doctors abortion" and you will get
plenty of articles about the case.


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