fr_defenestrato: (avogadro)
No, I don't do anything all day but LJ.

1. I found on the American College of Ob-Gyns webpage their press release re the amicus brief they filed last November when the SCOTUS argued the case it just decided. As [livejournal.com profile] pereginr8 quoted, they maintain that intact D&E is sometimes the best and most appropriate procedure to preserve a woman's health. They provide no detail or medical rationale, but they'd certainly know more than I about it. I do not understand, for example, why non-intact D&E (didn't they used to call this D&C, dilation and curettage?) or lethal injection prior to D&E are not alternatives. Anyone know?

2. I find it fascinating and repulsive that my google search on "When is a fetus viable" produced NOT A SINGLE medical opinion or fact—just a bunch of politicking, philosophizing, and praise the LARDing.
fr_defenestrato: (spore)
It must be noted that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (the Act) of 2003 already does and always has included an exception for the life of the mother (life, not health):

[The ban] does not apply to a partial-birth abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.yeah, yeah, anyway )

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