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Originally Posted by Zabijej
What's RIGHT about late term or partial birth abortion? By the third trimester, it's obviously a baby and it can live outside the mother's body. If someone doesn't realise they're pregnant and don't want their baby up until the 3rd trimester, they're slow as fuck - if they wait that long, why not just put it up for adoption, not suck its brains out when it's halfway out their cunt? If you're going to support that, we might as well start euthanizing unwanted children.
*exception: if having the child will kill the mother. Nevertheless, tests for that kind of thing should be done as early as possible.
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For one thing, partial birth abortion is a term the anti-choice movement coined, its not a real procedure.
The third trimester doesn't start until the 28th week, late term abortion is considered an abortion taken place at or after the 20th week, in the second trimester. A decision to abort into the third trimester is extremely rare (.08% of all abortions), and is done if the mother is at risk of dying or being severely disabled, if the baby has already died or if the baby is expected to die. There are also cases where it is discovered that the baby will be severely disabled all its life even if it does survive and the parents do not want their child to live in that agony, but that kind of euthanasia may be illegal:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/mag...term_abortion/