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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:53:45 PST
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- From: "John R. Covert 23-Dec-1992 1246" <covert@COVERT.ENET.DEC.COM>
- Subject: RE: Hello Bonjour
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- >Question about your Discussion
- >What is the Statut of the abortion in USA?
-
- In the USA, a woman has the right to an abortion at any time, for any reason
- whatsoever (birth date would interfere with skiing trip is a real example!),
- through all nine months of pregnancy. Although after the 26th week, abortions
- may only be done if the mother's health is affected, the courts have ruled
- that anything, even just social factors or a strong desire to not finish the
- pregnancy, can be considered health factors. Only the abortionist need rule
- that a woman's health would be affected by continuing the pregnancy.
-
- The best the pro-life campaign has been able to do is, in a small number of
- states, is get minor restrictions, such as requiring the woman to be given
- educational information about fetal development and a short (1 or 2 day)
- waiting period.
-
- Our President-Elect was elected on a platform of getting a law passed which
- would prevent states from even putting those simple restrictions on the right
- of a woman to walk into an abortion mill and say "please kill my baby right
- now."
-
- There are 1.6 million aborted babies each year in the United States.
- A number that would make even King Herod proud!
-
- /john
-