It shouldn't be controversial for a woman to save her own life over a pregnancy, wanted or not, but in the national conversation, it is. See: every late term abortion ban, ever. When it's played out like it is in the clip above, though, it probably is not controversial except to the craziest of the crazies.

Sure they are; their nuanced view is that when they need one, it's not really an abortion! Just ask Rick Santorum!

The example in the show IS "real" late-term abortion. I watched a friend have to go through one for a very wanted baby (conceived after years of IVF) because tests discovered the fetus had severe (meaning definitely unsurvivable) defects that would also threaten her life if she tried to carry it to term. In the US,…

I can't get myself to watch the clip, but just from reading the description, I think I get all that I need.

Those clauses kill women, because it leaves it up to the medical provider to determine if she is in enough danger to "deserve" an abortion.

No. Late term abortions are not something you can just up and say, "you know what? I'm not in the mood to have a baby after all." That's not even possible in most (any?) US states. And I have to say that because I've been through the debate with my husband, who came under the spell of a friend (who now lives far from…

Savita Halappanavar. There was also Sheila Hodgers in the 80s, a woman who was in the early stages of pregnancy when she was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors wouldn't treat her for cancer as the drugs would harm the foetus, and they wouldn't give her an abortion (or painkillers!) though she and her husband begged…

that is a misconception (pun not intended but whatever). i worked for an abortion doctor who was a close associate of dr. slepian- the doctor shot in his home by a nutjob- and i can assure you even before righteous nutjobs started murdering doctors because they are all for the sanctity of life (yep, that) that no…

People don't just up and decide to abort a late-term pregnancy. Late-term aboitons are almost exclusively to save the mother's life or to remove a dead or doomed fetus.

Why isn't this a "real" late-term abortion?

A large percentage of late term abortions are of "wanted" children. The more difficult and more common situation is when the termination is of a fetus that is basically nonviable - nearly certain to live a short and extremely painful life if carried to term.

There was that woman in Ireland who died a year or so ago because even though her life was at risk and she wanted an abortion they wouldn't give her one. Its almost unbelievable that this kind of thing is still happening in the 2010s.

That IS what late term abortion looks like, and there IS still debate about it. Almost all late term abortion is to protect the life of the mother or because the fetus suffers from some defect that is not compatible with life or a high quality of life. The anti-choice camp does not care why women choose to end a…

Honestly I think it can be called abortion, whatever the reasons. It is still a terminated pregnancy. In some countries, it is sometimes illegal to terminate a pregnancy (i.e. abortion) even when the mother's life or health is danger, because the baby is apparently more important. I actually read about a case in…

Yeah, I've never really understood the whole insistence that late term abortion was just people having an abortion late for the hell of it.

But to show people that are SO anti choice that they are willing to let the mom and the baby die? they are out there and they are loud. Maybe this will show them that the world isn't black and white, and that a a late term abortion isn't for shits and giggles.

I was under the impression that the very small percentage of abortions that are late term were overwhelmingly because of health issues for either the mother or fetus. Anti-abortion advocates try to spin it like "sluts be having so much sex they don't even know they're pregnant for 5 months/are too lazy to get an…

So that she can demonstrate what "asking for it looks like" so that when she is raped, it's her own fault!

Usually like this: let's fuck

How can you consent if you're drunk?