Reply #57: Blue, do you even know why this late term abortion is done?

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It is not done on a viable fetus.

That's the right wing lie, that if nothing was done 5 minutes later this would be a fully formed and viable little newborn baby ready to live life.

Do you even know what an anacephalic or hydrocephalic fetus is?

These are the main subjects for this kind of procedure, and they are not viable fetuses, most live for maybe an hour or so out of the womb, if they’re not stillborn. However they are often grossly deformed and have very large malformed heads and skull bones. As such their normal birth poses a significant risk to the mother. That's why they stop and empty the contents of the skull, and colapse the skull, before removing the fetus.

However the anti-abortion crowd wants to use this as wedge issue to start pecking away at abortion rights… bit by bit here and there to set precedents that they can later use to argue against the right to any abortion.

This entire argument rests on the ignorance of the population to the nature of this procedure.