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posted by [personal profile] aberration at 02:18am on 16/10/2008
Women's health - it's just some partisan issue.
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posted by [identity profile] connielane.livejournal.com at 02:35am on 16/10/2008
Damn, was that a bad answer. The "health" of the mother, indeed.
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posted by [identity profile] hymnia.livejournal.com at 01:43am on 17/10/2008
Actually, McCain was quite right. Doe v. Bolton, an important abortion case decided the same day as Roe v. Wade, says, "We agree with the District Court, 319 F. Supp., at 1058, that the medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all factors - physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age - relevant to the wellbeing of the patient. All these factors may relate to health.”

In practice, this means that writing a "health" exception into a late-term abortion ban would still allow a woman to have a late-term abortion for just about any reason that her doctor would approve--making the ban essentially useless. So McCain's statement that "health" has been misused by abortion rights supporters is 100% right on.
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posted by [identity profile] sixth-light.livejournal.com at 08:52am on 16/10/2008
*incoherent sputtering*

(That said, I wasn't *awfully* keen on Obama qualifying women having the right to make the decision with "in consultation with their families, and their religious leaders, and their old schoolteachers, and their dog, and their Congressman, and anyone else who wants a look-in" but at least he got as far as women choosing.)
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