LATE-TERM 2ND-TRIMESTER D&E ABORTION OF VIABLES PRESENTATION

This presentation is a repeat of an earlier Power Point document, recently updated.   D&E Dismemberment Abortion during the 22nd through 27th week gestation age (when infants in the womb are viable) number in excess of 20,000 children a year.  The late-term D&E Dismemberment procedure is just as painful to the child, and quite as primitive and gruesome as the now-banned D&X Partial Birth Abortion method.  Both methods – D&X Partial Birth Abortion and D&E Dismemberment Abortion – at this stage of 2nd-trimester pregnancy when the infants being destroyed are potentially or positively viable can be categorized as virtual infanticide (as Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously said).

For a comparison of the language used in the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and the proposed language for a similar Ban Act for Post-20-Weeks’ D&E Dismemberment Abortion (with an exception, in both Acts, as worded in the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, for the “life of the mother” being gravely endangered) see three earlier Posts/Articles below, the first and most recent being “PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION AND D&E DISMEMBERMENT ABORTION BAN ACT/S COMBINED” dated March 12th, 2011:  a working draft entitled “Completing Section 3 To Draft Late-Term D&E Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act Proposal” also dated March 12, 2011; and the earliest entitled “Late-Term D&E Abortion Ban Act Draft Bill” dated January 2, 2011.

What the “Completed Section 3″ of the proposed Draft Act/Bill does is to combine the proposed language of the D&E Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act with the very language used in the D&X Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.  Since both D&X and D&E Abortion rationales at this stage of pregnancy are the same, the gestation ages of the infants are identical (i.e. late 2nd-Trimester), the purposes of both Abortion methods are in neither case ever medically necessary, and that severe pain is caused in both gruesome procedures, it is logical that the language of both Bills/Acts are identical.

The number of infants destroyed by these two procedures, D&X and D&E, during the second half of the 2nd-Trimester – when those infants have now been medically proven to be potentially-viable or positively viable – over the past 35 years must total on the order of 700,000 (i.e. at least 20,000 per year).  Both the U.K. and the U.S. medical studies on the viability of extremely premature birth infants show statistically that for the period encompassing 22 through 26 weeks’ gestation (lmp) the average rate of viability to survival over two years of age was in excess of 50%.  That statistic would indicate that the minimum number of Positively Viable Babies killed by D&E and D&X Late-Term 2nd-Trimester Abortion in America since Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton has totaled more than 350,000 human beings – persons – viable, survivable persons.   Not only has this carnage been “virtual infanticide” as Patrick Moynihan said; it may be more accurate now to declare that it has as “virtual genocide”.

The facts below explain the seriousness of this annual destruction of 20,000 viable and potentially-viable infants in America.  The facts are unknown in America.  The title of the power-point presentation should be “The Unknown D&E.”