yes abortions are not preformed past a certain stage of the fetus unless its an illigal abortion
they would not preform an abortion on a woman who was 30 weeks pregnant
i dont see the confusing part at all?

If there were fetal deformities, they can and do make exceptions for termination of a pregnancy at 30 weeks.

You cannot have one 'just because' though, because you need a 'referral' for a later term abortion.

Ever hear of George Tiller? Do a search of him. Very late term abortions is all he does. He is a sick sick man.

http://www.drtiller.com/

He does late abortions if the fetus is deformed or if the mother's life is in danger. It's not for fun or giggles. Saving the mother's life makes him sick?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tiller

youre right
thats creepy

doctors do late abortions if its absolutely neccesary.... ie after 30 weeks etc, we found out at 30 weeks that something was def going to be wrong with our baby and were told that terminating was a big option to us....

we could not do that to our baby

i thought only abortions past 26 weeks could be done if they were medical abortions and there was a problem with the baby or the mother was at risk?

i dont know how they would do it or anything like that all i know is that we were offered to terminate because of a prob with the baby.. i was shocked that at 30 weeks the doctor would even suggest it especially when they dont know 100% whats wrong

yeah

How are you doing? Did you find out any more information? I keep thinking about you.

But, the definition of abortion means that terminating a pregnancy after vialility is not abortion.

Because abortions at 24 weeks are most often done for fetal deformity, these were wanted pregnancies that went terribly wrong.

THIS is how they terminate those pregnancies.

They inject digoxin into the fetal heart to euthanize the fetus, THEN they induce labor with pitocin, much like with induction due to an overdue baby.

The baby is born, but it would be a stillbirth.

It is abortion. The definition needs to re-written obviously. And I think it was also pointed out that Dr. Miller performs every abortion on a case by case standard and goes by the law of the state in that every person mus have a valid reason proving that continuing with the pregnancy will be detrimental to the woman's health.

If you want to be part of a debate please do not pick and choose which arguments you will respond to. Read and respond to valid arguments if you want to seem credible.

abortion is legal from after 24 weeks to birth (here) if there is maternal health or foetal abnormality problems - it is still an abortion. This is the legal stance, definitions change between person/dictionary/reference but a termination at 30 weeks is still an abortion.

True; although that may be the definition of a "lawful" abortion, it's clearly not the correct definition for abortion in general. Consider too that miscarriage counts as a natural abortion.

geee whizzz i didnt realise thats how it would be dont to late terminations

Yes, you are correct. But miscarriage carries the exact same definition as abortion, in terms of the timing. A miscarriage is a spontaneous abortion, and a spontaneous abortion is a non-medical ending (like nature caused it or some other non-purposeful reason) of a pregnancy before viability. After that is is a premature birth.

*sighs* Do I really need to repost the links to a web site showing the kinds of fetal abnormalities which would be subject to post viability abortion??

Probably would open a few eyes/minds.