Judge says partial birth abortion is no worse than other kind

illustration of a partial birth abortion
illustration of a partial birth abortion

Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit, in ruling against the Partial Birth Abortion ban, makes this point:

“From the standpoint of the fetus, and, I should think, of any rational person, it makes no difference whether, when the skull is crushed, the fetus is entirely within the uterus or its feet are outside the uterus. Yet the position of the feet is the only difference between committing a felony and performing an act that the states concede is constitutionally privileged…. [T]here is no meaningful difference between the forbidden and the privileged practice. No reason of policy or morality that would allow the one would forbid the other.”

Richard John Neuhaus “So What’s the Big Deal about Partial-Birth Abortion” : First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life June 2000. : 84.

Below is a diagram of a D&E abortion. This is the way most second trimester abortions are done today. Is it any more humane than a partial birth abortion?

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Sarah Terzo is a pro-life writer and blogger. She is on the board of The Consistent Life Network and PLAGAL +

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