Quote Originally Posted by amsterdam
This should be very interesting to watch play out. While I am pro-choice,I feel partial birth abortions are absolutely disgusting (like abortion) and I wonder how a women could live with herself after committing such a horrendous act. But, it is her body.

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I agree with you. It's one of the toughest calls I can think of. Yes it's her body however, there is no question, medically or ethically, that this is a fully developed baby that could survive outside the womb with little or no help from medicine. Any doctor will tell you that there is at least as much threat to the mother peforming this procedure as there would be performing a c section or even a natural delivery. So I have a hard time with the whole "saving the mothers life" aspect. And what really gets me is how if I were to accidentally hit this same woman with my car and kill her and her baby, I would be guilty of not one but two charges of manslaughter...yet the doctor and mother who make this choice are guilty of nothing? But my libertarian/anti-gov side says it iis a medical decision and should not be regulated by the government. Maybe I'm just too ignorant to comprehend such a high level of intellectual quandry. After all, I have trouble reading James Joyce. (how fucking high was that guy anyway?)