Posted on 10/12/2018 4:51:06 PM PDT by Morgana
Even when abortion is considered, rightly, a criminal act prosecutable by law, procedures which are genuinely lifesaving to the mother have never historically been prosecuted or never resulted in a conviction. For instance, hysterectomy of a pregnant uterus in the case of uterine cancer; or removal of the Fallopian tube in the case of ectopic pregnancy. Life-saving double effect is a successful defense --- historically always has been.
He was a piker compared to the 50% of the America citizens who have butchered more human beings than either Hitler or Stalin...
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