Is abortion legal at any stage of pregnancy in the US?
if yes, please provide an official link, not wikipedia. Thanks alot
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Yes, only up to 12 weeks gestation.
It's one of few countries where murdering an innocent life is perfectly acceptable, but carrying out the death sentence of a prison inmate is unethical.
Thanks to the Great Liberator, GWB, SCOTUS picks - partial birth abortion is no more!
Abortion is murder...it would be a terrible thing to do. Don't abort the baby, just have the baby and then put it up for adoption. It's a much better choice in the long run.
only up until 12 weeks and in rare cases 20 weeks. after that not considered legal. Partial birth abortions which were rare and only in the cases of saving the life of the mother was banned. This form of termination had occurred in <0.5 of 1% of all terminations in the nation
only if the mother's life is at risk..I believe by choice it is not performed after 24 weeks
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/birth-c...
yes abortion is legal. No don't give your baby up for adoption. Adoption hurts!! it messes up peoples lives permanently. If you carry through with a pregnancy, parent. Parenting is the BEST option!!
http://www.americanwomensservices.com...
As the law is written, abortion can take place at any stage. Many states interpret the legal time limit as "when the fetus can be viable outside the womb". There are no hard and fast rules, thank goodness.these decisions should be between the woman and her doctor.
While the rarely used "partial birth" abortion has been "banned", you can bet that in the operating room, if the mothers life is at risk, all measures would be taken to save her life.
Until the government puts a law enforcement officer in each and every delivery room to "observe", what goes on in that room is between doctor and patient.
As for abortion, no one can FORCE a woman to give birth if she chooses not to. No one has control over her body except HER. There were abortions before Roe (since the beginning of time) and, should Roe be overturned, there will continue to be abortions. The ONLY difference is with Roe, it is a safe medical practice. Without Roe, many women will die due to back alley butchers using kitchen table for the procedure.
This is an excerpt from the referenced website:
The official report of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, issued in 1983 after extensive hearings on the Human Life Amendment (proposed by Senators Hatch and Eagleton), stated what substantially remains true today:
“ Thus, the [Judiciary] Committee observes that no significant legal barriers of any kind whatsoever exist today in the United States for a woman to obtain an abortion for any reason during any stage of her pregnancy. [2] ”
One aspect of the legal abortion regime now in place has been determining when the fetus is "viable" outside the womb as a measure of when the "life" of the fetus is its own (and therefore subject to being protected by the state). In the majority opinion delivered by the court in Roe v. Wade, viability was defined as "potentially able to live outside the woman's womb, albeit with artificial aid. Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks." When the court ruled in 1973, the then-current medical technology suggested that viability could occur as early as 24 weeks. Advances over the past three decades have allowed fetuses that are a few weeks less than 24 weeks old to survive outside the woman's womb. These scientific achievements, while life-saving for premature babies, have made the determination of being "viable" somewhat more complicated. As of 2006, the youngest child to survive a premature birth in the United States was a girl born at the Baptist Hospital of Miami at 21 weeks and 6 days' gestational age.[3]
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