I was asking specifically about Tiller's behavior, the killing of viable babies, etc. Since I posted that I have done some research on it and I ended up with more questions than answers. There seems to be no agreement as to whether these are perfectly normal health babies/fetuses or whether these are the special case abortions dealing with danger to the mother, deformities, or permanently incapacitated fetuses--microcephalic or hydrocephalic for instance.
I am sure some of the babies had health issues. Some of them had downs syndrome but not all. Some were perfectly normal babies. His records were not accessible, but now that he is dead we might be able to see some of the medical records with numbers instead of the women’s names. I am sorry but the idea that a partial birth abortion has to be done because the baby is causing danger to the mother is not possible. If a woman lets say were 7 or 8 months pregnant and her kidneys were failing because the baby was taking too much out of her. A doctor might have to induce labor and have her deliver the baby early so her kidneys could recover, or he might give her a C Section.
But remember the law says if the baby’s head comes out it’s a human being and has to be given medical treatment if born alive and this is the reason why partial birth abortions are done by delivering the baby breech.
Now go back to the woman who has kidneys that are failing but she is 8 months pregnant with a baby she wants.
What doctor would recommend forcing her to do more damage and harm to her own body by having a baby delivered breech and if getting that baby out of her body ASAP is a must to protect the woman’s kidneys why would he hold the head inside the woman’s body long enough to stab the baby in the back of the neck? Why not just deliver it? Partial birth abortion is impossible to do for the reasons of health or life of the mother, though an induced early delivery and an incubator is very possible and reasonable.
This is such a personal issue to a woman that I think the Federal government and public opinion may be too blunt an instrument to deal with it properly. I can understand wanting foot prints etc. if the baby was crippled or deformed such that it could not live except as a vegetable, but again, these are such personal issues that I am glad that I am not the one who has to sit in God's chair and pass judgment.
I do not understand wanting foot prints for a baby you just had a doctor kill. I do not understand wanting pictures of that either, and most especially a baptism certificate. Now if a woman was pregnant and not having an abortion because she wanted her child and the child was born dead then I can see wanting all those things. You see it as a child of yours that died not a fetus or what ever it is people think of their children when making appointments with tiller.
I don’t know what mood you were in when you typed this but its strange I can feel like a caring tone. A feeling I never get from anyone else on either side. I know my posts are blunt and harsh when talking about this topic and most people on the other side are also. Something felt different when reading your post, something I liked
A woman here in Portland just threw her two kids off the Sellwood Bridge into the Willamette River apparently to get revenge on her husband during an ugly custody battle. A person who does that cannot be in their right mind and I'm glad that I won't be sitting on the jury that decides her punishment. The little boy died but the girl lived, they were pulled out of the water by a man and his wife who live along the river and took their boat out in the dark when they heard the calls for help.
The kids are here in Eugene, the daughter will return to the Meadowlark school once she is better. It was such a horrible story. I remember a few years ago a woman 8 or 9 months pregnant with a perfectly normal and healthy baby had a partial birth abortion because she got in a fight with her husband and wanted to hurt him. I do not believe in hurting / killing children period. How is it we can see the horror of what this Portland woman did but not of what other women do legally every day?