I agree with you on points 2 and 3 – an abortion is a medical procedure and should be treated like any other in terms of the care provided to the patient. Point 1, though, raises some issues that many people aren’t taking into consideration. In particular, I would point to a situation where a fetus may be, for instance, brain dead after 5 months, or the fetus dies as a result of some other unfortunate natural event as a result of disease or malformation during gestation. In that instance, a woman would be forced to carry the dead fetus until her body naturally “eliminates” it.


This could be dangerous for the mother; she could become septic, not to mention the mental and emotional pain she will suffer knowing she is carrying a dead baby. Can you imagine being approached and congratulated on your pregnancy, and having to explain that your baby is actually dead? This scenario has played out in many instances already. It’s abusive and doesn’t make any sense in medical terms. There are also instances in which the fetus may be alive, but circumstances may make it life-endangering for the mother to continue the pregnancy. Let’s say you’re a mother who already has four children, and #5 is on the way.

At six months you are diagnosed with cervical cancer and you have a choice; abort the baby and receive life-saving treatment, or carry the baby to term and allow the cancer to develop beyond the point that the mother could be treated and saved. Whose interests do you consider? The four children who will lose their mother? The mother who will lose her life? Or the unborn child?
Anyway, the point of the bill in Texas isn’t to insure the safety of women receiving abortions; it’s to essentially ban abortion. Rick Perry claims that Texas values all life – except the life of the person he put to death this week, the 500th execution in Texas. The hypocrisy stinks to high heaven.