Posted by
Shogrensus on Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:30:49 PM
Rosie can acknowledge the barbaric nature of partial birth abortion but she can not get over how few of these procedures are performed. It's as though there is a magic number at which we should care and unless we hit that number, the babies killed by partial birth abortion are irrelevant.
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Rosie: but Elisabeth its .15 percent
Elisabeth: 2000 lives- we count the lives
Rosie: 0.15 % and mostly the baby is severely ill or the mother’s life is at risk. Nobody voluntarily goes in and says please give me a partial birth abortion because I would like to physically injure –it is a grotesque procedure
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Those 2000 lives should be counted. Doctors should also have been required to document why the partial birth abortion had to be performed- for example what was the defect identified. We'll never know how many of these babies could have survived and contributed to our society.
We also don't know how many of those babies could have been delivered, saved and given up for adoption. Many of the women could have carried the baby a few more weeks and then delivered the baby.
The exchange continues:
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Elisabeth: It is grotesque. They remove the child and crush the skull. That child is born into this earth
Rosie: Usually the woman’s life is at risk Elisabeth
Elisabeth: But there is an exemption here- if the womans life is at risk it wouldn’t even be- it’s a moot issue
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The notion that these mothers were themselves in life-threatening situations is simply not true. That is why the health exception is so important to the far left in this situation. Rarely can they claim a life of the mother risk. The health of the mother allows any reason to suffice.
Oh Elisabeth, why do you make Rosie listen to facts?