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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
How so? Is this one of the health of the mother issues?
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Yes, mostly. Additionally, it is drafted broadly enough to, in some circumstances, ban procedures that aren't PBA and have otherwise been found constitutionally protected. But basically, its undoing is that the thing is drafted like a piece of shit. It is not difficult to draft anti-PBA legislation that would pass constitutional muster, they just, inexplicably, didn't do it. I'd like to think the congressional pro-choicers got very devious and figured out some way to sink this through extremism, but I frankly don't give them the credit.
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Because, if so, I'd guess that the 98% of abortionists that refuse to perform PBAs
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I agree with what you are getting at here - this is so miniscule and marginal it is basically a non-issue.
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would agree that a PBA has never really been the necessary option to save someone's life. Of course, if anyone can stand up and truthfully declare that "I am alive today only because a doctor could and did perform a PBA", I'll eat my hat.
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I'll bet there are some. My vague understanding is that, in fact, they are usually performed only in fairly severe emergency circumstances. In terms of someone willing to stand up and take a bow about it in the current political climate ... I doubt we'll find that. So say hello to your hat for me.
