BYLINE- Texas, North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin. Okay, truth be told I live in New York. Abortion On Demand is not a new service being offered by my cable provider, like HBO is. Abortion On Demand is a myth that we are up against. Within the past couple of weeks, Tucker Carlson talked about Wendy Davis and the People's Filibuster by saying that "The Left" wants to keep abortion legal right up until birth. Bill O'Reilly used to talk about Dr. George Tiller performing abortions hours before birth. This is pure fantasy.
If you believe that late term abortions should be limited and rare, then you should know that even in the Golden Age of Abortion, those heady days after Roe V. Wade was handed down, the law of the land restricted 3rd trimester abortions. You should also know that the current law of the land limits 3rd trimester abortions to cases where the life or health of the mother is at stake.
Let's do some math, shall we? Human incubation lasts approximately 9 months. That makes a trimester 3 months. 6 months times 4 weeks equals 24 weeks. Most doctors agree that 24 weeks is, on average, the bare bones minimum requirement for viability. Has a baby been delivered in fewer weeks and survived? I'm sure it has happened, but it is not likely.
A Republican Congressman recently justified a 20 ban on abortion by saying that a male fetus with his hand between his legs was pleasuring himself, and if he could feel pleasure, then he could feel pain. Apparently, not only does he believe in fetal masturbation, he believes that only male fetuses do it. He would probably reject my patent application for the fetal female vibrator.
If you believe that a woman would wake up one morning after 8 months of pregnancy and just change her mind, I pity you. If you believe that a woman would "claim" to be raped to get an abortion, you are just sad. If you want to cut medicaid, S-CHIP and WIC, you forfeit your right to claim to be pro-life.
The Left is learning how to talk about issues. Gun Safety polls better than Gun Control. Marriage Equality trumps Same-Sex Marriage. Let us forever retire abortion rights in favor of what they really are- Women's health.