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i personally would never have an abortion. i don't have a strong feeling one way or another for other people.
but i actually took some of the argument in one of these cases when it was before judge casey in new york - a seriously right-wing, catholic judge. he was one of the judges who held that banning the procedure was unconstitutional (read that over so the un/ban negative thing doesn't get you.)
on the face of it, you'd think that the late-termness of it makes it horrible. but what i learned during the arguments and testimony was that a seriously high percentage of people who go through this procedure - i'm talking like 80 or 90 percent - i can't remember exactly - are women who want their babies but there is a medical deficiency with them; like the baby is going to be born brain-dead or something and will have to be kept on a life support or something like that. so the women who have this procedure are sometimes forced with the option of going through the pain, mental process of delivering a child that will soon die. and when this happens, they're in the maternity ward on a floor with all these joyous women who are celebrating the birth of their child. as far as the pro"choice" aspect of it, both of their choices suck. and so the way it seemed to me, as well as this seriously right-wing judge, is that this case was totally brought just for the exact purposes of appalling people with terms like "partial-term abortion" and the visions of the actual process, when really, it's not teenagers using this as birth control, it's really and truly a medical procedure. anyway, i just thought i'd shed some light from actually hearing testimony and arguments on the matter. it was all very shocking to me. this was probably two years ago, whenever it was before judge casey.
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