Well, here's a case. A 2-month old Pakistani baby, who was a triplet, was born with her two siblings in her womb. Surgeons removed the fetuses in an operation that, in the United States, could be made illegal in South Dakota, Tennessee and other states where the no-exceptions Forced Childbirth Lobby is trying to have their way.
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I sure hope she got parental consent!
And the proper counseling regarding the alternatives to abortion!
Oh puh-leez, Alice, there is NOT any state that is trying to ban removal of stillborn (that means "already dead", FYI) fetuses, I'm quite sure. How about just make your point without reverting to misinformation!
Oh puh-leez, Jeffrey, how do you know the fetuses were already dead? Many right-wing nuts think a collection of cells growing on its own, is a life, so they may not be dead under their definition. We know this was a malformity but that is not excluded under the new laws put upon women.
Its still rather disengenuous not to make mention that we don't know if they were alive or dead. That kind of has a huge bearing on whether or not the procedure would be legal under the recent SD legal changes.
Further, to shift the discussion to the opinion of the "right-wing" nuts on whether a clump of cells is a life, is a misdirection, the new state laws being the issue at hand.
That being said, I'm still really interesting in knowing more about the new laws and if they do actually exclude procedures like this. Do you have links to some resources?
Jeffrey, that's not misinformation. These laws are being written to be as restrictive as possible, and will be in flux until the Supreme Court rules on the matter. Other states are also considering rash bans, and as the Aberdeen American News points out in this article (which is no longer available for free on their web site), when crafting the South Dakota abortion ban, "Senators rejected attempts to make exceptions for the health of women, in cases where the fetus has died or there is little likelihood of the fetus surviving after birth, and in instances or rape and incest."
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