Is supporting term limits and exceptions for abortion radical thinking?

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(06-25-2024, 08:10 PM)CJD Wrote: The issue is defining what is and is not medically necessary and how to verify that in a timely manner such that action can be taken.

If all it needed was any doctor's sign off, then that would be good, but the right would just cry about "radical left wing doctors" approving abortions as necessary when they really aren't because they hate babies.

The next option is to have a medical board that approves decisions. But what does that approval process look like? Can they respond in a matter of minutes? How does a doctor properly portray all the complicated and nuanced reasons or data points that makes them believe an abortion is necessary? Do you have time to wait for approval when lives are on the line?

The third option would be to allow doctors to act at their own discretion in the moment, but then review their actions in hind sight and potentially hold the doctors responsible if you determine they deemed an unnecessary abortion necessary. But then you'd start having doctors turn women away because they don't want to risk legal or financial issues if a faceless board does not agree with their assessments which can be complicated or judgment calls.

Or, we can just trust that if a woman is staying pregnant for 15 or 20 weeks, she wouldn't just have an abortion after that for fun.

According to the CDC, Only 6.9% of abortions in 2020 occurred after 13 weeks. the surveillance does not differentiate between necessary and unnecessary abortions within that 6.9%, but I imagine a vast majority of them were nearing the necessary side by most people's judgments. Why create an entire advisory board and approval process (or whatever other options there are to monitor necessary vs unnecessary) for something that could be as small as 1 to 2% of all abortions nationwide, especially when it could lead to deaths of the mothers in the other 5 to 6%?

You make a lot of interesting points. The question that comes to mind is why those who want no term limits fight so hard for the 1 to 2 percent. Are you saying only 1 to 2% get an abortion after 13 weeks? If so, how many of those were for medical emergency?