Partial Birth Abortion Ban

I learned today that the Senate approved the ban on what are known, politically, as partial birth abortions and I wonder whether something hasn't been overlooked.

A commentator on NPR said that this measure has the potential of stopping abortions performed as early as the 12th week.

Amniocentesis is generally performed between the 15th and 18th weeks of pregnancy and detects debilitating to fatal chromosonal and genetic defects and neural tube disorders.

Allegedly, 140,000 abortions are perfomed in the US after the first trimester, or beginning in the 13th week. I wonder how many of these are because of a news revealed by amniocentesis?

Furthermore, 140,000 is a pretty low number when you consider the population of the United States.

Consider, too, the health and education costs children with the above sort of defects will create. How many of those Senators vote against special education funding and medical funding?

Anti-abortionists lack perspective. Some of their energies might better go to protecting the living. We now know that the chemicals like fire retardants in children's pajamas and insect poisons are responsible for the increased incidence of asthma, as well as behavioral problems.

WBZ's medical reporter Dr. Mallika Marshall recently underwent tests to discover whether she had fire retardants in her body and she does. Now, were I to post this on abuzz, I would be attacked by conservatives who would say that liberals wanted fire retardant chemicals in kids pajamas in the first place but the liberals were the people who resorted to sewing their own pajamas for their kids and to using long johns -- cotton underwear -- as pjs.

The ban on so-called partial birth abortions is a boon-doogle perpetrated by the uneducated and uninformed.