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conix, puleeze, When there is no good choice .. one bit ..

Later-term abortions — those performed at 16 weeks and beyond — account for only 4.3 percent of the 1.21 million pregnancies ended in the United States each year, according to the Guttmacher Institute in New York City. These cases are often misunderstood, says Michael F. Greene, M.D., director of obstetrics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. “Part of the strategy of [anti-abortion activists] is to demonize these women and make them into unsympathetic characters who view second-trimester abortion as a trivial decision,” Dr. Greene says. “I have never met a woman who didn’t agonize over this decision.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24844532/ns/health-pregnancy/t/when-there-no-good-choice/#.VgyV4CuSqM9

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'Partial-Birth Abortion:' Separating Fact from Spin
February 21, 2006 9:44 PM ET .. old

How often is the D&X procedure performed?

According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights research group that conducts surveys of the nation's abortion doctors, about 15,000 abortions were performed in the year 2000 on women 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancies; the vast majority were between the 20th and 24th week. Of those, only about 2,200 D&X abortions were performed, or about 0.2 percent of the 1.3 million abortions believed to be performed that year.

And contrary to the claims of some abortion opponents, most such abortions do not take place in the third trimester of pregnancy, or after fetal "viability." Indeed, when some members of Congress tried to amend the bill to ban only those procedures that take place after viability, abortion opponents complained that would leave most of the procedures legal.
http://www.npr.org/2006/02/21/5168163/partial-birth-abortion-separating-fact-from-spin

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Partial Birth Abortion v. Intact Dilation & Extraction
http://www.agraphia.net/partial-birth-abortion-v-intact-dilation-extraction/

leave it to the women and the health professionals, who have most traumatic and difficult decisions
to make every day, without being made to feel guilty by the likes of you and the theocracy minded crowd.

See also:

Ted Cruz Continues His Push To Repeal 'Every Bloody Word' Of Obamacare
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=104834973

conix note, DD spot on .. Undercover Antiabortion Video Showed Images of Stillborn — Not Aborted — Fetus
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=117101294

Even Planned Parenthood Haters Hated The House Oversight Hearing
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=117349529