By the way, Virginia law already allows 3rd trimester abortions and infanticide.
The bill sponsored by Virginia House of Delegates member Kathy Tran would ease the process of 3rd trimester abortions by reducing the doctor shopping from three to one (or two?) for signatures regarding the, uhmm, “health of the mother.”
This makes me wonder if New York law already allowed 3rd trimester abortions prior to the recent change which received so much publicity.
I suspect that most states already allow 3rd trimester abortions, using the fiction of “health of the mother” as the pretense. Can somebody enlighten me/us?
I suspect your are largely correct. From what I've read, the whole "health of the mother" thing is, as you said largely a fiction used to cover up cold-blooded murder, as the circumstances where the mother's life is actually in danger during the 3rd trimester where the baby could not be successfully delivered is an extraordinarily small percentage of them.
Now that they've actually come out and said that they want to be able to murder babies that have actually been born, this fiction has been stripped away.