Word: fetuses
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Joining the apocalyptic chorus, the Washington Post decried the “paternalistic pretense” underlying the “elevation of the importance” by the Court “in protecting the fetus throughout pregnancy.” Despite depicting partial-birth abortion as an “admittedly gruesome procedure,” the Post editorialists concluded that the “ominous” implications outweighed any practical consideration of the practice in question...
...outdone, the Los Angeles Times executed the most precious of unintended ironies, labeling the decision an “unconscionable U-turn” while offering a detailed and dispassionate description of the abortifacient procedure, by which “a doctor partially extracts a fetus from the uterus into the birth canal, where he then collapses the skull by suctioning its contents...
...camps emerged with their rhetorical guns blazing. While I consider myself pro-choice and I believe life begins at birth and not conception, I have come to realize the pro-choice movement can be just as delusional as the pro-lifers who cling militantly to the notion that a fetus is a life form...
...such a rare procedure (according to the Guttmacher Institute, only 0.17 percent of abortions in 2000 were IDX) and because the ban clearly did not restrict the much more widely-used (and closely substitutable) second-trimester abortion procedure, Dilation and Evacuation (D&E), in which a physician tears a fetus apart as he removes it from the womb piece by piece...
...many new abortion restrictions being proposed in the states, their proponents will be fighting on far more hostile political territory. In South Carolina, for instance, lawmakers are considering - and the Governor supports - a bill that would make it mandatory for a pregnant woman to view an ultrasound of her fetus before obtaining an abortion, regardless of whether there was any medical necessity for the sonogram. Even the state's Republican Attorney General Henry McMaster has warned that it would be "illegal and improper for the state to force a person seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound image against...