Reply #11: All the late-term abortions I've ever heard of in real life have occurred

[Lydia Leftcoast]

because the mother's life was in danger or because the fetus was already dead or so deformed that it wouldn't have lived anyway.

Tuesday's New York Times carried the story of a woman who underwent a late-term abortion (30 weeks) because the fetus had been strangled by its own umbilical cord.

By the way, one of the late-term abortions to save the mother's life was performed on a friend of my mother's in the 1940s. It was hardly a careless decision for the woman in question, because in those days (who knows if the same would be true with current medical science?) the doctors told her that another pregnancy would kill her, so she never had any children.

A woman would have to be some kind of sociopath to abort a late-term pregnancy just for the hell of it, and she'd have to find a doctor who was another kind of sociopath to agree to it.