How can a baby born alive after a Partial Birth Abortion be a "concern for the mother's health?" It's OUT? ?

Question

Obama said that the reason he was against the ban was because of concerns for the mother's health. But if the baby is BORN alive, you would assume that it is already out of the mother's body...right? So how can the baby be hurting the mother. It sounds awful to me.

There was testimony from a nurse who claims that she held a baby for 45 minutes that was born alive and then tossed in the trash to die. Why would you kill a baby after it is born alive? Just because it was marked for death? Because it was the mother's property?

What is the health concern for the mother? Why isn't there any concern for the baby?

Answer 1

These "born alive" babies almost invariably have a defect which makes their viability of having months, if not days, of a miserable life and horrendously expensive care.  There just are hardly any late term abortions done on a voluntary basis where there is a healthy viable fetus.

I have read that "testimony" from that nurse, she has a whacko anti abortion agenda and leaves me to believe she's a liar at worse and/or was describing a baby which was going to die from an invariably fatal defect.

Obama's mistake was being civil to that witch where anti abortion people twist his words.

Answer 2

Simple answer is "It's not !"

This is infanticide pure and simple.

I'm amazed that doctors and nurses will do this horrible work.

Answer 3

Obama refers to unwanted babies as "punishment":

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/348569.aspx

Yes, the source may be biased but those are indeed his words.  You can also find it on YouTube.

Answer 4

A partial birth abortion is never performed for the health of the mother. In the third trimester the baby could survive outside the womb. So they could just induce labor and allow the baby to be born. Sticking scissors in the little kid and sucking its brains out doesn't improve the mother's health at all.

Answer 5

I don't see any health concern for the mother. Then again I'm not a woman, and as such, some would say that my opine on this subject doesn't count.

I wonder how many less abortions would take place if children of inconvenience were mandated by law to be done away with by the parents themselves. I.e. have either the mother or father hold the living child and then have to kill it.

Probably wouldn't work. Given the value life has in todays society.

Answer 6

Very, very few abortions are performed out of concern for the mother's health, so that argument is null.

Answer 7

Sourse for the nurse's statement.