No one should be allowed to write or talk about this so-called partial birth abortion procedure anymore until the standard challenge (http://www.eileen.250x.com/Phantom.html) has been met.

A D&E, by the way, is NOT really a late-term procedure. Let's stop perpetuating the lie by pretending PBA=D&E. They are NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NEVER HAVE BEEN NEVER WILL BE the same, and anyone who claims they are doesn't know what s/he is talking about.

replace D&E with D&X, the Haskell procedure. My bad!

It is life or health of the "woman." Many pregnant women don't think of themselves as mothers yet and some choose not to become one.

Has this procedure for late-term abortions replaced the saline-solution method which was popular in the 1970s?

"It is life or health of the woman"

Amanda, I agree - the issue here is the life/health of the woman versus the fetus.

By using the term "mother", it evokes the notion of sacrifice that women are supposed to make when they become mothers - meaning a "mother" is supposed to be willing to give her health/life for her child.

But the usual alternative to intact dilation and extraction, or so-called partial-birth abortion, is "disarticulated" dilation and extraction, in which the fetus is taken apart before it's removed from the uterus.

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I've posted about this before; the alternative to the so named Partial Birth Abortion is fetal dismemberment. These types of abortions are almost always preformed because testing has discovered the fetus has a life ending disability. Usually, the lack a brain, and death is certain within a few hours to at most a few days of birth.

These are parents who wanted a child, who after making arrangements, and sometimes even picking names, painting rooms, buying clothes and having a baby shower and presented with the painful reality that they child is not viable.

Some choose to carry the child to term, which has its complications, both physical and emotional. Others cannot bear the burden of carrying that which is doomed for another two months. Their choices are C-Section, induced labor, fetal dismemberment, or the so called partial birth abortion. The later is easiest on the women's heath, and leaves the fetus intact and normal looking for the parents to greave.

The anti-abortion groups want to take an already traumatic event and make it even more painful by advocating that a wanted fetus is torn into tiny pieces and removed.

Why anyone who supports a women’s right to chose would back down from being against fetal dismemberment is beyond my comprehension.

You can pretend a pregnant woman is not a mother, but that doesn't change the facts.

She is a mother, just like the father is the father, whether he wants to be or not, whether they get an abortion or not.