re: #206 Naso Tang

I’m stepping in here in dangerous waters, but you are also making unsupported statements. What would you do with, say a late term fetus that ultrasound discovered had nothing but fluids for a brain, but a functioning brain stem that kept a heart beating, and quite possibly other gross abnormalities that threatened the life or health of the mother, or perhaps not the latter?

Now I don’t know the statistics anymore than you appear to, but I am confident that I am not making up a once in a lifetime occurrence, and I have read of other situations that I would not like to have to describe in print.

Before Tiller is condemned here, even if by insinuation, I ask that you do the research first.

I don’t think my statements are unsupported. There are many women who cannot care for a special needs child who chose to abort. For many reasons. I think Last Mohican said it far better than myself concerning the situation you described.

The quote I posted from Tiller was about pre-natal testing. Why even bother then? You only do these tests to see if the child is ok. If abortion is illegal, why do them?

Like you say, there are a number of circumstances here and lots of gray areas and reasons why women want to abort. I know it sounds like a cop out, but really for me it only has to do with 1) the law; 2) the woman’s choice with the help of her doctor.