re: #241 unrealizedviewpoint

Before I finally sign off I want to share a thought.
Abortion is the subject that makes all invested to somehow lose, if only a little, their sense of balance. It’s such a heated subject, emotions run so high on both sides -all seeking to win out this little part of the debate, and/or to minimize their opponent. Why we can’t achieve solutions is not that we’re partisan publicans against demoncrats that certain, based upon debate here. We’re folks who feel strongly about life, life of a child, or the life of the mom carrying the life. Neither should have to give up rights to life or freedom over body. We really need find some middle. Nobody’s working the middle.
/crying

I’ve already proposed a moderate, sensible centrist position:

Abortion permitted during the first trimester.

Abortion permitted in cases of rape or incest until fetal viability (mid- second trimester). I offer the additional time here because a minor who has been raped either by a member of the family or by someone else often has to spend the time to go to court to get permission for an abortion against her parents’ will, and even then they can refuse to pay for it, and getting funds for the procedure could take some additional time. But at the point of fetal viability, we are talking about a second life that can survive independently of the mother.

Abortion permitted in the third trimester only in cases where the mother’s life is in grave danger, or she is in grave danger of serious and lasting injury (brain damage, paralysis, etc.), and/or if the fetus is either already dead or else so horribly deformed that there is no chance whatsoever that it will long survive childbirth.