re: #218 spudly

My wife is a surgeon (not at all “pro-life” in any sense, we’re not religious, for example). She said that the invasiveness of the late term procedure is such that she cannot imagine a scenario where that procedure is required in a short time interval (short of trauma, perhaps). Examples might be to abort for immediate chemo or radiation, but as she told me, if a few weeks is critical… the mom-to-be would need to get her affairs in order anyway since any cancer in that much of a rush would almost certainly kill the mom regardless (the treatment doing no more than buying time).

Still, you could require a court order of some kind later term. Getting 2 docs to sign on OTOH, would be easy. Find 2 docs that have no ethical qualms with abortion at any time, done. I don’t think that is a terribly robust requirement to meet.

Its an extremely robust requirement. First you have to find 2 docs willing to risk their lives to be involved at all. Secondly, the medical reason needs to be robust to say the least because legal challenges are guaranteed.