Reply #140: Actually, you could have written Roe v Wade

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It basically states that until viability, it is the woman's decision, and after that, the state has an interest in fetal life, and can restrict it - so long as there are exceptions for the woman's health.

The thing is, healthy women with healthy, viable late-term pregnancies are not seeking abortions - even if medical ethics allowed physicians to perform them.

It's a PL myth that the only thing keeping hordes of healthy women in their 8th month of pregnancy from driving by a clinic and deciding to have an abortion is legislation...Late term abortions account for less than 1% of all abortions - even in states with no late term restrictions, so the numbers just don't support this fantasy.

So total bans like the so-called "Partial Birth Abortion Act" are only really affecting women with wanted pregnancies that have gone horribly wrong.