The filibuster in the Texas legislature over the abortion legislation has overshadowed what the law is actually meant to do. One of the primary things the proposed law would do is ban late-term abortions (i.e. D&X abortions) that occur after the 20th week of gestation. Not only are these children usually viable outside the womb, they feel pain, and the procedure is more like infanticide than abortion. Greg describes the procedure in question here. And by the way, a large majority of Americans think late-term abortions should be illegal.
I think you're being redundant. Abortion IS infanticide.
Posted by: z | July 02, 2013 at 07:38 AM
I agree with you "z", though in defense of Melinda, I believe that you'll find that most dictionary definitons of infanticide describe post uterine killing of children. We agree that pre-birth or post-birth makes no difference at all as to what is occuring-the unjustified killing of a human being.
Posted by: Brad B | July 02, 2013 at 09:41 PM