How can that NOT make you cringe?
I do feel bad that women who have late term abortions because of the extreme cases can no longer have an intact D and E .
If the fetus died a natural death in the womb or would have had a medical problem that would have caused it be stillborn or only live a few minutes or hours Doctors who performed legal late term abortion used to be able to abort and deliver the fetus still intact so the woman and her family could spend a few minutes with the intact body and mourn.
Since the partial birth ban that is no longer possible.
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Kansas was one of a small handful of states that allowed legal late term abortions in 2008
Dr. Tiller ( he was killed a few years later ) was only only one of 5 Doctors who performed legal term abortions in the US in 2008 .
Many OB/GYNs from all over the US whose patients had extreme case pregnancies sent their patients to Dr. tiller.
The extreme cases were the cases where the woman's life or irreparable damage to a major bodily function would take place if the pregnancy were allowed to continue, where the fetus had died a natural death in the womb ( yes, when a doctor removes a dead fetus and the fetal material from the womb it is still called an abortion and those abortions are included in the abortion stats ) where the fetus would be stillborn or would be so malformed it would only live a few minutes or hours.
Kansas recorded all the legal abortion that took place at or after 22 weeks gestation in 2008.
There were 323 late term (22 weeks gestation or after ) abortions and many had come from out of state.
192 of those abortions were because the fetus was not viable.
The fetus had died in the womb or would be stillborn or would only live a few minutes or hours.
Theses fetuses were NOT viable. They would never live.
The other 131 abortions took place because the woman would have irrepairable damage to a major bodily function would have taken place if the pregnancy had continued.
They were extreme cases.