The abortionist must keep a small portion of her inside, so she can be denied those rights. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby's brains out. It is odd that Clinton thinks it would be inhumane to outlaw such procedures. His explanation is that partial-birth abortions are needed sometimes to save an expectant mother's life or to protect her health. But the bill would allow it if the woman's life was in danger.
Medical experts say it is never needed to protect a woman's physical health.
Indeed, it is difficult to imagine many things harder on a woman's health than to turn her baby into the breech position and deliver it that way. The argument is that having a baby would impact a woman's social and economic life, perhaps negatively, and that could hurt her emotional health. But many women feel tremendous guilt after an abortion, and that also often hurts their emotional health. Besides, as a practical matter, abortionists are not in business to talk people out of abortions. If there is a ''health exception,'' almost every woman who shows up at an abortion clinic will be deemed at risk of emotional health damage if her baby is allowed to live.