I saw this story this morning about a woman went to an abortion clinic to have her 23 week-old fetus aborted. While there she delievered while waiting on the doctor to arrive. One of the clinic’s owners cut the umblilical chord, put the baby in a bag and threw it out.
The article contains the statement “The case has riled the anti-abortion community, which contends the clinic’s actions constitute murder.”
from the AP article
“The employee then told him that Williams had already delivered.”
I’d say it stopped being an abortion at this point and becomes negligent homicide. This case should “rile” everyone, it’s a horrible situation.
I also wonder about the 23 weeks. That’s late term right? wikipedia shows that a very small percentage of abortions are this late.
“In 1997, the Guttmacher Institute estimated the number of abortions in the U.S. past 24 weeks to be 0.08%, or approximately 1,032 per year.”
I wonder what was happening in this persons situation? Pro or Anti abortion doesn’t matter here, this was a terrible thing. From a little reading, it seems one of the procedures for abortion is “early induction”. I’m odd in my views in that I’m personally against abortion, but I’m for your right to choose for yourself. However, “early induction” at 23 weeks seems blatantly irresponsible.