Subject: Re: Don't Let DT Take Your Soul, Too
So there is a juncture in pregnancy where you are Pro-Life, and Anti-Abortion.

That doesn't follow from what I said. You're trying to put words in my mouth. I merely stated a fact, not an opinion or a position.

The fact is that third trimester abortions are incredibly rare. About 1% of total abortions. And while I don't have the data handy, I don't think there are many - any?? - doctors who would actually perform an *elective* abortion that late in a pregnancy. I suspect it would be against the medical profession's code of ethics, and quite possibly punishable as some form of murder or manslaughter. Those abortions that do happen late in pregnancy are virtually all due to extremely difficult circumstances - the fetus is dead or dying or killing the mother.

So to complain about "whacking" an 8 1/2 month fetus is to complain about the sun rising in the west. It just doesn't happen. Not in the way Dope implied.

--Peter