#d&x

[kuroakateru]

Happy birthday angel this is for you @thenutcrackerus

[jennywritesworld]

Gonzales vs. Carhart (2007, U.S. Supreme Court) upheld and affirmed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban in America.

#TW: #Language, #content. Late-term abortion. #Parents, do not listen when your children are nearby.

The ruling did not affect early abortions, or ban them. It only banned the late-term abortions known as the "D&X" or "Intact D&E," where the fetus is partly or completely outside the mother's body.

👂Listen to the audio here (cut and paste URL into your browser):

( https://apps.oyez.org/player/#/roberts2/opinion_announcement_audio/22038 )

#BBC #Canada #GreatBritain #China #USA #Japan #Taiwan #PartialBirthAbortionBan #stopPartialBirthAbortion #SCOTUS2007 #GonzalesVCarhart #AFLM #LifeAdvocate #TW #TriggerWarnings

[i-was-a-naive--prolifer]

I just wanted to point out something about the post which touched on partial birth abortions. Third trimester abortions, where legal, involve injecting the fetus with a poison, waiting a couple days, then the woman delivers it whole. Only second trimester abortions do they perform d&c. Currently, delivering the fetus is the only accepted third trimester abortion procedure. Just so misinformation isn't spread. Coming from a supportive prochoice person.

Thank you for bringing this up. I looked up Gonzales v. Carhart, and it looks like in the US there is an exception that allows physicians to perform intact D&X abortions in some circumstances. The decision says, “If the intact D&E procedure is truly necessary in some circumstances, it appears likely an injection that kills the fetus is an alternative under the Act that allows the doctor to perform the procedure.” This is done by induction of fetal demise, a process that kills the fetus by injecting the fetal heart with concentrated potassium chloride or digoxin using a long needle guided by ultrasound.  The problem with the induction of fetal demise is that it introduces an unnecessary health risk to the pregnant person, and Gonzales v. Carhart only allows it if it is “truly necessary in some circumstances.”

I checked out the websites of a couple third-trimester abortion providers in the US to see what they said about the procedure. One of them states, “Once the cervix is ready, medications will be administered which will start labor and result in the delivery of a stillborn. On the first day, an injection of Digoxin will also be administered to stop the fetal heart beat.” The other says that “third trimester patients having a pregnancy terminated for fetal anomaly … may wish to have an intact fetus that they can examine and hold.” So it looks like intact fetuses can still be aborted if the pregnant person just goes into labor and delivers it.