Abortion At 37 Weeks? (Page 1)

Yes its true, in the uk anyway, in the usa I believe it is still legal to get an abortion for any reason even durring birth in some states.

She said in the uk anyway,
i had thought there was a pba ban in 03.. Isnt it still in place? And at 37 weeks how else would it be done?

Abortion is legal in the uk up to the 24th week of pregnancy. However, if there is a substantial risk to the woman's life or if there are foetal abnormalities there is no time limit.

She didnt abort her child, her doctor offered to abort her child if it had ds, which it didnt, the girl was appalled at even being asked.

Theres so many false positives tho...

Ahhh your right, I was thinking of alternative tests, I know there is one that has a pretty high rate of false positives.

37 weeks is full term so would that not be murder??

i had my baby at 37wks alive,and to think of his brain being crushed and brain bein sucked through a tube is murder ,anyone involved shud rot in hell.a baby is a life no matter how many wks it is

Of course, if the fetus is anencephalic, there is no brain to suck out.

Get a grip, people, the only abortions performed at 37 weeks are because the fetus has no chance of life, or to save the life of the woman. Stop pretending that this has anything to do with discussing abortions.

Well, at 37 weeks an abortion is never necessary. Terminating the pregnancy at that point would just mean delivering the baby since, more likely than not it would live. In the US abortions are legal to 24 weeks for elective reasons and up until birth for health reasons. A viable fetus is 22 weeks. Why then would it be necessary to kill it after it could survive outside ofthe mother's body? So many pro-choice persons deny the fact that late term, unnecessary abortions happen. But they do. One only needs to look up Dr. Martin Haskell. He is a very popular late term abortionist. He himself admits that 80% of his abortions are late term. In the 23-28th week. Only 20% of those are for health reasons. The rest are purely elective, voluntary abortions

i dont understand why the doctor would be willing to do an abortion if the baby had downs. thats crazy!

Why is it crazy?

well its crazy because first of all its a full term pregnancy and second of all just because the baby has downs syndrome that is no reason to abort it

i can understand if a baby had a life threatening disease and it wouldnt live very long after it was born but downs is not a life threatening disease. its a genetic disorder.

Down children can have serious physical issues. My best friend had a Down child who had a heart defect. He died at age 4 or 5 and she had a nervous breakdown. Guess what? She's very much pro choice even though she herself would never abort.

I seriously question whether the situation in the OP even happened. If someone is going to have genetic testing done, they do it long before 37 weeks.