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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLA Times Editorial: Courts should strike down bans on abortion method in Kansas, Oklahoma
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-abortion-20150419-story.htmlBy THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
The latest attempts to restrict abortion rights don't even bother to pretend to protect women's health as various state legislatures argued they were doing with recent laws requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The new efforts go straight for the drama.
Kansas and Oklahoma this month became the first states to ban the safest, most widely used method of abortion in the second trimester. The nearly identical laws, which are both referred to as the Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act, outlaw the procedure known as dilation and evacuation (or D&E) which is described in the Kansas legislation as dismembering a living unborn child and extracting such unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus. The law makes an exception to save the life of the mother.
The bills were designed to make the procedure sound as gruesome as possible in nonmedical, emotion-laden terms. However, the legislators are accurate on the basics of the procedure: In a D&E, the fetus is removed with forceps, and disarticulation a medical term that means dismemberment but is less likely to be used in a horror movie usually occurs, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
The fact is, lots of surgical procedures sound horrific; most are intensely invasive and unpleasant to describe. In this case, the dismemberment is being done to fetuses that are not viable outside the womb and that scientists agree cannot feel pain. (Don't be fooled by the unscientific claims of some anti-abortion groups that they can.)
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LA Times Editorial: Courts should strike down bans on abortion method in Kansas, Oklahoma (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Apr 2015
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malthaussen
(17,204 posts)1. The colon needs to be moved,
... or people will be asking "WTF is an editorial court?"
-- Mal
Trillo
(9,154 posts)2. I didn't think they moved the colon in an abortion.
Those are two separate plumbing systems.
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)3. Naw, I have it on the good authority of Mr Vito Barbieri...
... that the digestive tract is identical with the reproductive system.
-- Mal