re: #161 Alouette

A woman is in such a desperate situation that an emergency c-section might possibly kill her, but travelling to some clinic out in the middle of nowhere, not a state of the art facility, won’t kill her?

I’m having trouble imagining how she can survive until she gets to the clinic out in the middle of nowhere. I assume there is not emergency helicopter medivac service.

I’m not a doctor. I assume you are, so maybe you can explain this phenomenon.

Sure. She possesses a medical condition that would kill her if she underwent either childbirth or c-section, but she is stable until such things happen. Like I said; rare, but existent. Of course, considering your antiabortion sympathies, you would dearly love to believe that no such cases ever happen, and that the contention that they do indeed occasionally happen is a pernicious lie, but the medical fact is that they DO happen, although, as I mentioned before, rarely, and that empirical reality will not bend to your intense desires on the matter.

And the few clinics in the US that specialize in late-term abortion procedures most probably possesss specialized technology that hospitals that refuse to provide the procedure do not.