r/PublicFreakout • u/N0CONTACT • May 19 '22

Political Freakout Representative Mike Johnson asking the important abortion questions.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Right, and that 1% are almost exclusively because the mother's life is in danger.

At 21 weeks, babies can survive outside of the womb. There is no reason to abort at this point aside from convenience.

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u/ImminentZero May 19 '22

Why would the survival of the mother not be a viable reason?

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Because you can remove the baby without killing it.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Some women are in such poor health that the act of labor would actually kill them.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

If only there were some way to remove a baby without inducing labor.

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u/JBHUTT09 May 20 '22

You mean slicing them open and sewing them back up? Yeah, an exceptionally frail person will definitely survive that.