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and quite a few medical text of my own, there is no medical procedure called a 'partial birth abortion'. None.
It's not in any of my OB/GYN texts, it's in none of my Maternal-Newborn nursing texts, it's in none of my medical dictionaries, it's in none of my Medical/Surgical text books either.
Equally, neither are 'blood thinners' except to explain that the term blood thinner is extremely incorrect---drugs like Heparin and Coumadin (the two most popular 'blood thinners') don't actually "thin" the blood--they reduce platelet aggregation which can cause an increase in bleeding time and a decrease in clot function.
I've never heard a diabetic refer to themselves as 'having sugar'---and working in a hospital where 80%+ of my patients are diabetic, I'm sure I would have heard the term at some time or another.
Many women refer to having their 'tubes tied'--the actual name of the procedure is 'tubal ligation'. That's not the way the procedure is named in the text, and that's not the way a gynecological surgeon would relate the procedure to a woman.
As Dookus pointed out---Medicine is not a field where laypeople and non-medical-professionals have the right to relabel terms or make up their own terms.
The procedure that you refer to as "partial birth abortion" is actually called, medically, an Intact Dilation and Extraction. That's how it's defined in medical text, and that's how it would be written up in a patient care plan or chart.
Unlike the terms "blood thinners" referring to AntiCoagulants or "sugar" referring to diabetes, Partial Birth Abortion is used EXCLUSIVELY to appeal to basal emotions. Who would ever get a point across if they stood outside the courthouse or Senate holding a sign that said "STOP INTACT DILATIONS AND EXTRACTIONS NOW!!"? No one knows that that is (outside of the well-informed, and those in the medical community) However, holiding up a sign saying "STOP PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS NOW!" well, there you got your appeal to emotions. There, you automatically have a picture of a woman who, upon feeling contractions, whisks herself into the local Planned Parenthood and demands an abortion RIGHT NOW at 8 months at 59 minutes.
Your understanding as to why Intact D&X's are done is woefully uninformed. You say "don't tell any horror stories about children who won't live anyways," but why do you want no discussion about why the procedure is done?
THe reason people get hot-under-the-collar about Intact D&X (partial birth abortions) is because for those who are against the procedure, and who use inflammatory non-medical terms to describe the procedure, they NEVER take into account why the procedure is done. They only want to appeal to basic human emotions that little babies = sacrosant and there's never a reason to remove them from the womb. Ever.
And, for the far, far, far far majority of Intact D&X's that are done, there's no reason to ensure the death of the fetus because the fetus is already dead, or has a condition that is not compatable with life outside the womb, or has no brains to suck out, or whatever contents are inside the skull aren't brain matter, but spinal fluid, or blood, or nothing at all.
In many cases, these are done in the case where the mother is pregnant with twins, and one has died in the womb. To remove just one of the twins pre-labour would surely result in fetal stress for the remaining twin. Therefore, removal of the dead fetus is held off for as long as possible to ensure safe development of the remaining twin, but also not so long as to cause the mother to go into septic shock, or to poision the amniotic fluid causing death to the other fetus. When you have twins, you can't just deliver one via C-Section and close the uterus up and let the other continue to grow and develop. That just doesn't happen. Once the uterus is opened, BOTH twins must be delivered at the same time. The living one MUST be removed along with the dead. If the death happens mid-term, the remaining twin may not have reached a stage of development that would be consistent with life outside the womb.
I urge you to go to your local library or medical college or nursing school and check out some texts on Maternal-Newborn Care, or OB/GYN medical texts. See WHY the procedure is done and HOW it is done, and realize that no doctor would perform an abortion at the 8th month without there being clear-cut evidence that the abortion NEEDED to be performed.
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