Amen!
This partial birth method of abortion is used when the fetus is 26 weeks of age or older. At this stage of development, the toughness of the fetal tissue makes the D&E method difficult.
After dilating the cervix for two days, the abortionist uses ultrasound to locate the fetus' legs. One leg is pulled into the vagina with forceps, then the other leg and torso are delivered by hand.
I defy ANYONE to name circumstances in which the life or health of the mother is at stake whereby a risky 2 to 3 day procedure is safer than a simple stat C-section!!!
But a C-section, the procedure of choice, ends with a live baby. Thus the "necessity" of PBA.
pinging some pro-lifers.
I think there was a long signed letter or ad signed by lots of doctors a couple of years ago, explaining that PBA does not have a name "acceptable" to pro-aborts because it is not and never was a valid medical procedure. It may also have gone into the risk of inadvertently slicing the mother because the doctor's working sort of blind.
I think I saw the letter/ad in the WSJ, but it may have appeared other places.