@janbb It’s simply illegal to abort and kill a third term viable baby in the US already. So, it’s not a matter of me thinking women or doctors do it, I always say every woman I know who had to terminate a pregnancy in the third term wanted and wants her baby.
My question is, is the NY law worded so it could be interpreted that a third term healthy fetus can be aborted and the baby terminated. @jca2 says it’s not the intent of the law to make killing third term babies legal. And I say baby not fetus, because I think we all agree 7th month and later that’s a baby. But, in the 7th month it’s not unheard of that the fetus needs medical support to live.
Of course, the Republicans are twisting it all and stating Democrats are ok with killing babies, which is absurd, and really pisses me off, but if the wording of the bill is vague (I don’t know if it is) then it leaves room for twisting.
It’s terrifying to me that people on the right say things like it’s never the case that a pregnancy endangers a mother’s life, and that women might be forced to continue pregnancies that out their life at risk. I understand why this type of protection is important. Even something as simple as older moms often are induced early for fear of complications. The government should not be mandating his long a woman stays pregnant, but I do think viability matters in terms of a legal right to terminate a pregnancy that will end up killing the fetus.
Right now the law of the land is the viability rule, so I’m not so sure NY had to pass this law now. The republicans are going insane. We are already at war, we didn’t need to put gasoline on the fire in my opinion, but maybe I don’t understand all the ins and outs of why NY thought it important right now.