Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ban in the US

Re:Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ba... by AuryGlenz on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:10PM (#32598519)

Sure. There are also people that want to make abortion legal all the way up to delivery. There are people that want to completely ban guns. There are people that want to throw our borders completely open and those that want to completely close them. There are political advocates for basically every extreme there is.

Most of the time extremes are unpalatable to voters so we end up somewhere in the middle while the politicians make big talk to rile up their base.

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Re:Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ba... by sleepymoose on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:22PM (#32598684)

>There are also people that want to make abortion legal all the way up to delivery.

Genuinely curious, because I've never understood this part. What does a "just before delivery" abortion entail? Do they do a C-section and give the baby a lethal injection or what?

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Re:Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ba... by _-david-_ on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:37PM (#32599642)

They will sometimes lethally inject the baby, but other times will not. I think injection is required in the US. If they do not inject the baby first it is considered a partial birth abortion.

Typically, they will flip the baby around and pull out everything except the head. They will cut open the neck/head area and suction all the brain material so they can crush the head and more easily extract it.

They typically (always?) have to dilate the cervix. I don't think they will do it through c section unless there is a medical reason.

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Re:Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ba... by homonculus1 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:00PM (#32599232)

They deliver the baby halfway through the cervix and then crush its head.

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