First, it needs to be understood. The RHA permits abortions when a medical professional's “reasonable and good faith professional judgment is based on the facts of the patient’s case” — “the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.”
In other words, women may choose to have an abortion prior to 24 weeks; pregnancies typically range from 38 to 42 weeks. After 24 weeks, such decisions must be made with a determination that there is an “absence of fetal viability” or that the procedure is “necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.” That determination must be made by a “health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized” under state law, “acting within his or her lawful scope of practice.”
So an abortion at an advanced stage of pregnancy isn't "ripping a baby who can feel pain from his mother's womb." The fetus will die anyway or the mother will likely die giving birth.
Now imagine your a spouse or child of the pregnant mother. Without this protection you may leave the hospital with a new child but without your wife. Or you may have a sibling but no mother to raise you. Or you may all have to grieve the stillbirth of a family member who was never going to survive in the first place. This law aims to protect against physical harm and emotional devastation. This is not a cruel, immoral law. It's a measure designed to help women.
If you can't take care of it, put it up for adoption I say.
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@Billybob2 yes! There are so many couples who can't have children who would give the baby a good life.
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What the law says The RHA permits abortions when — according to a medical professional’s “reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the facts of the patient’s case” — “the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.”
In other words, women may choose to have an abortion prior to 24 weeks; pregnancies typically range from 38 to 42 weeks. After 24 weeks, such decisions must be made with a determination that there is an “absence of fetal viability” or that the procedure is “necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.” That determination must be made by a “health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized” under state law, “acting within his or her lawful scope of practice.”
This is the kind of thing that makes me sick about politics. No one is wanting to abort babies in the ninth month. There are very few places that will even perform an abortion that late and it is extremely expensive when you can find one. The only reason anyone would have an abortion that late is if the mother's life is at risk or there is something terribly wrong with the fetus,as in it doesn't even have a brain, or it will spend its short life in constant pain, yet there are people that knowingly misrepresent the facts. Probably the same people who would prefer the mother to die along with her fetus and yet they dare to call themselves "pro life".
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If there is no risk to the mother and the child is viable, it's morally reprehensible.
@DonaldTrumpet For them I support Retroactive Abortion. Just because your were born, doesn't mean you are out of the woods. May I suggest we start with
Aside from the fact that that's not what the New York law does, I don't live in New York, and am much more interested in what the Supreme Court will do with the McGee case out of Louisiana.
It's not as gory or revolting, but I think it's going to be more significant than the New York law Nationwide.
The other side of he coin is that women are allowed to die due to complications in pregnancy either because abortions are illegal, or because they are so severely restricted that Drs would rather risk the life of the patient than risk losing their license. Think it can't happen in civilized countries? This happened in Ireland in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar
