Arkansas Senate passes bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks

[kdmorris]

5. Sounds pretty unreasonable to me

Most abortions after 20 weeks are for fetal abnormalities - not because "a woman couldn't figure out what to do". They do the "anatomy scan" for fetal abnormalities at.. wait for it... 20 WEEKS.

I'm currently 20 weeks pregnant with twin boys and I am eternally grateful that they are both healthy and thriving. BUT one of the women I know who was due around the same time as I am just went through an awful, heart wrenching experience with her twins. The boy twin was malformed and dying due to abnormalities with his heart and kidneys... he might have been in pain... but who knows. She was faced with terminating his life to try to save his twin sister or let him die on his own, which - if it didn't happen for a couple more weeks would likely throw her into pre-term labor when he passed... thereby killing his twin sister, too.

She had to make the most agonizing decision of her life and, using potassium chloride, they stopped his already struggling heart at 21 weeks. Her little girl is doing fine and she didn't go into pre-term labor.

Who are you to judge what the fuck is "reasonable" in this situation? Had my friend lived in Arkansas and this bill had been signed into law, she would have been forced to take her chances with her baby girl because she would not be allowed to make the choice to try to save her daughter by giving up her son - who would not have lived much longer anyway.

I suggest that you actually educate yourself on abortion before you try to say this is reasonable or that women just "couldn't figure out what to do". Don't even get me started on anacephaly.