One benchmark is to ask what the means are the state can use to protect a born child. How much more serious is this decision when we are talking, not about extracting bone marrow but losing a uterus or a kidney. The pregnant woman. This is a tough-minded argument about those few pregnancies that have gone most tragically awry. Pregnancy is risky.
Many women embrace heroic procedures to have children.
But the bill is not really about banning one abortion procedure. If dilation and extraction is the first method banned without exceptions, it won't be the last. The goals of abortion opponents are unequivocal. We already have compromises. The Supreme Court decisions weigh the interests of the woman with those of the developing fetus.