JDG wrote: > At 08:46 PM 5/17/2005 -0500, Dan M. wrote: >> Let me ask a very simple question which bothers me a lot about the >> legality of third trimester abortions. If a woman finds a hospital >> and a physician that are agreeable, is it legal to do a dilation >> and >> extraction on a fetus that is normally developed, 8 lbs, and 3 days >> overdue? AFAIK, the answer is yes. > > Yes, such an abortion would be totally legal. > > And so just to be clear, the baby would be three days overdue, labor > would be induced, and the skull of the baby would be punctured just > before it emerges from the mother. This is legal in any case in > which the woman claims that *not* doing this would endanger her > mental health. >
And you want such a person to raise a child? (I'm looking at the kind of person who would use mental health as an /excuse/ to evade the responsibility of parenthood) Perhaps you are thinking the child should be spared and the mother should be aborted? xponent Set Sarcasm For Zero Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
