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b_b  ·  4410 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?
After-birth abortion is not in any way a proper term. Abortion is stopping that which is in progress (e.g. "abort mission".) We can't now abort Operation Iraqi Freedom because hindsight made us realize it was a terrible idea. It is complete. Similarly, a pregnancy can only be aborted during the pregnancy. If it is after term, then by DEFINITION it is not an abortion. It is infanticide. I would disagree, but at least listen to the argument if the authors wanted to debate the morality of perinatal infanticide. They are trying, and failing miserably, to use semantics to put a dress on a turd. At some point, there needs to be a definition of what is legal and what is not. An early term fetus has no consciousness and no agency. A toddler does. Where is the line drawn? If we could kill a perinatal newborn, how about after a day? A week? A month? I don't know where the line for when an abortion is appropriate lay, but in my opinion its definitely long before birth.