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Partial Birth Abortions
Abortion is considered to be the extraction of a fetus from the womb before it is viable, which normally occurs during the 20th week of pregnancy. ... Augustine allowed up to 80 days for abortions on female fetuses and up to 40 days for male fetuses. ... What may be shocking, are the methods in which abortions, mainly, partial birth abortions are performed. The difference being is that partial birth abortions have been performed during the third trimester of a woman’s pregnancy. ... At this clinic, she witnessed a partial birth abortion and testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in November 1995, on what she witnessed. She stated, “I stood at the doctor’s side and watched him perform a partial birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. ... ” This is what a partial birth abortion entails. ... In this, he freely admitted, “… the majority of fetuses aborted this way (partial birth abortion), are alive until the end of the procedure.”
Initially, the world was told that not many partial birth abortions were performed. ... It has been found that as many as 2,200 partial birth abortions are done yearly.
Approximate Word count = 939
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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