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Originally Posted by Liebling:-)))
I cannot understand... If they decides to not keep a child then do that early abortion instead of wait until late abortion (partial birth abortion) then...? 
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Exactly. Second trimester abortions are legal only if the mother's life is at risk, or the fetus has been determined to have a birth defect so severe that they would not survive if the pregnancy was carried to term. In most cases, the child would not survive the birth process. A woman cannot just decide, late in the pregnancy, that she just doesn't want to be pregnant any more, and walk in off the street and demand that a doctor give her an abortion. And, Partial Birth Abortion refers to a specific procedure for doing second trimester abortions. It is not legal. When doctors do a medically therapeutic abortion in the second trimester for medical reasons regarding the life of the woman or the life of the fetus, they have to use a different procedure other than Partial Birth.