CNN.com – Justices tackle late-term abortion issue – Feb 21, 2006
Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a newly-constituted court already in a state of flux over privacy rights.
I worked in an Maternity/OB unit in a hospital for a few years during college. One of the saddest things to witness were the families having late term abortions. Not once in a little under two years can I remember a woman having a late term abortion for convenience. Every case was because the mother’s life was in danger or the fetus was not viable. It makes absolutely no sense to legislate what procedure the physician may use. The results are they same. They make a judgment on which procedure is the least stressful and best preserves the mother’s ability to have children in the future. Neither congress nor state legislatures are competent to make a blanket assessment of the best medical procedure to use, it’s ridiculous.
