Reply #72: give this one up, will you?

[iverglas]

There are just so many things that should be left on the right-wing sewer internet sites they came from.

He now says the procedure is performed far more often than his colleagues have acknowledged, and on healthy women bearing healthy fetuses.

AND AT WHAT STAGE OF PREGNANCY?

ID&E is a PROCEDURE. Not a STAGE OF PREGNANCY.

Pretty much ALL abortions performed in the first trimester, for instance, are performed on "healthy women bearing healthy fetuses". So what?

The "partial-birth abortion" brouhaha created by the right wing has NOTHING to do with the STAGE OF PREGNANCY at which abortions are sought or performed. It is about a PROCEDURE.

... In the vast majority of cases, the procedure is performed on a healthy mother with a healthy fetus that is 20 weeks or more along, Mr. Fitzsimmons said.

And nothing here contradicts the fact that ID&E is MOST COMMONLY performed in the SECOND TRIMESTER and BEFORE HYPOTHETICAL FETAL VIABILITY, i.e. at 20-22 weeks. That is: at a point at which the US Sup Ct has held that the state MAY NOT INTERFERE in women's exercise of their rights except in the women's own interests.

Ron Fitzsimmons -- a hired lobbyist and nothing else -- may have fallen for the shell game. Intelligent people who are not eager to depict women and doctors as murdering monsters do not.

And people of good will do not repeat it endlessly. Certainly not at "progressive" internet sites.


It's too bad people on the right aren't the only ones who feel the need to see things in black and white.

It's too bad people allegedly on the left don't exercise a little more critical thinking or self-restraint when they feel the urge to misrepresent women and doctors and their colleagues on the left.