(05-17-2019 03:54 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  What is more likely to happen?
Scenario 1: The law isn't passed. More women will die from complications of pregnancy and more women will be forced to give birth to nonviable fetuses because they can't find a doctor willing to perform their 3rd trimester abortion.
Scenario 2: The law is passed. Hundreds of doctors who have been itching to abort healthy, viable 3rd trimester infants get their opportunity. The number of 3rd trimester abortions of healthy fetuses increases.
I think Scenario 1 is the more likely one.

I think 2 is far more likely. And 1 can be fixed with the simple solutions that Tanq has suggested herein. But this law goes far beyond those. And the only logical reason for no liability ever is to set up option 2.

And I guess the other question I have is what is the difference between aborting and giving birth to a non-viable fetus? Either way, you get a dead baby. Whereas the difference between aborting and giving birth to a healthy, viable baby is pretty signifiant. I recognize that the issues facing, say, a young unwed pregnant girl can be pretty daunting. It seems to me that one solution to her dilemma is to make adoption a more viable and less difficult option. We have this huge ethical opprobrium again having babies for sale. But a young expectant mother with the options of having an abortion or having the child on behalf of a childless couple willing to pay her is one that I think would be resolved in favor of carrying to term more often than not, and I really don't see the great ethical dilemma there. It's certainly better than abortion.