Are you at least allowed to hold babies that are born alive after botched abortions before they die??

Question

I just hate the thought of these little ones dieing in a cold room all alone without feeling a human touch and no one to care about them...

Could you volunteer to hold them for their last hours? Or do they not allow that?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Liberty,

It actually does happen.  There was a late term abortion here in California where the baby girl actually survived, and other than having some lacerations on the head; she was fine.

That girl is probably about 8 years old now.

Answer 2

A fetus in the age were abortion is still legal doesn't have the ability to feel anything.

major components of the central nervous system that are necessary to feel haven't been developed yet.

Answer 3

Your ignorance, it's funny.

Answer 4

that's horrible- are you kidding

Answer 5

That is such a sad thought. I can't believe people act like the baby aka "fetus" is nothing. There is a video you can find online called "The Silent Scream" and it shows an ultrasound during an abortion and it shows the baby trying to get away from the tools that are about to kill it. It is so sad. I am pregnant and my little guy inside of me is a baby regardless of how it is defined by the law. Abortions, especially late term abortions, should be illegal. The poor babies.

Answer 6

Fetus' do not generally come out alive. There is a problem with the doctor if it does.

Answer 7

What you're saying is right wing non-sense. An aborted fetus doesn't know it even exists. What you're talking about only happens in the minds of the pro-lifers.

Answer 8

yes i think thats what happened to you.

Answer 9

Not nearly as often as the 35,000 children under 5 who die every day from a lack of basic food and water (USAID) (UNICEF).  If you really want to help, you could provide food and water to children in need....so that living children do not have to starve to death. You can't imagine how horrible starving to death feels.

Answer 10

last hours?

an abortion is typically done when the embryo is a few cells.

if you want to sit around and swaddle what amounts to some other woman's monthly discharge that is your prerogative. I think the thought is pretty gross.

Answer 11

I don't know

You would have to ask a doctor that performs them