Outlawing Partial-Birth Abortion in Nebraska

Let's say you have a couple that's continually "not ready" or "doesn't feel like it right now", and they have 6 abortions in a row.

For the #4 abortion, they have an anesthetic for the "fetus" before the "procedure".

At what point in time is #4's life worth more or less than the other 5? Perhaps the couple "feels better" about getting rid of #4, since the others were "so tough".

We wouldn’t want maternal instinct to hamper anyone's feelings about killing their unborn child.

I have no maternal instincts, I don't even like kids. Luckily I had comprehensive sex-education and access to birth control, so I've never been pregnant. Want to stop abortions?? Start educating children.

Oh yeah, and MIND YOUR OWN UTERUS.

"Luckily I had comprehensive sex-education and access to birth control, so I've never been pregnant.

Yes, I agree. The world is a much better place because of it. On behalf of a grateful nation, thank you for minding your uterus.

the world is a much better place because of it.

Well, at least some poor little kid doesn't have to grow up with a mother who doesn't like children. I wasn't so lucky. I come from a long line of child-hating women. At least I care enough about kids to NOT have one.

Genetics has some curious and fascinating results doesn’t it?

We wouldn’t want maternal instinct to hamper anyone's feelings about killing their unborn child.

A friend of mine who just had her first child belonged to a pregnant women's message board. She told me of one of the members who, already having three prematurely born but surviving children after a diagnosis of "incompetent cervix", continued to get pregnant and subsequently deliver - despite cerclage (sewing the cervix shut), bedrest and whatever other indicated treatments - four or five more premature babies who were either stillborn or who died shortly after birth.

Explain to me why this woman shouldn't feel just as guilty as you think other women seeking a late-term abortion, even with an "anesthetization proposal" should? Tell me whether you believe these wanted babies did not suffer before they died. Show me any new "pro-life" legislation based on stopping this sort of idiocy. If you can't, convince me that intent has nothing to do with this or any similar legislation.

Let's make sure all health insurance companies cover contraceptives with as low of a co-pay as possible. For some people that $30-$40 per month makes a big difference, especially if you don't currently have a steady partner.

Get the tubes tied and don't get pregnant.

LOL, another problem in this country. I know plenty of young woman who want to get sterilized, but (as usual) no one trusts them to make decisions about their own bodies, "You'll change your mind once you meet a man who wants children" they are told. I couldn't get sterilized when I was younger, even though I have never wanted children and still don't (at just under 40). But I could get my first husband a vasectomy for FREE. When HE was 23 years old. RI State pays for vasectomies for uninsured males. Isn't that nice?? I couldn't find a doctor willing to sterilize ME until I was 29, and by then I didn't have any insurance...but no free surgery for me...no,no, I'm a girl and can't be trusted. If you have already had your requisite two children you can get the surgery, but not until you've fulfilled your contractual obligation as a brood mare. Sickening sexism in this country.

Sometimes it doesn't even get done after you've had your two. I worked with Dawn, I'm the benefits coordinator for a trucking company. She and her husband Craig had a little boy and when he was around two they decided they'd like to have another child. So, Dawn got pregnant, she had terrible problems and they weren't sure she'd go full-term. At the beginning of her pregnancy Dawn had our company insurance and was seeing one of the two ob/gyns at the small town hospital. Her husband has changed jobs and his insurance is cheaper so they switch to his work policy.

At the beginning of her pregnancy Dawn had our company insurance and was seeing one of the two ob/gyns at the small town hospital. Dawn, Craig and female doctor have agreed that since Dawn will be having a C-section, they will have her tubes tied at the same time. Since they're are only two ob/gyns serving the only hospital, you'd think they'd both be covered by the new insurance company, right? Wrong. She has to go to Dr Quack, who won't tie her tubes because HE doesn't believe in it. Nevermind, they can't really afford another baby, that they've decided it's best for their family to have the boy and the girl and that's good enough. NO Dr Quack gets the final say.

When she got back from maternity leave, she came to my office to ask about getting back on our insurance so she can see the first OB again and get her tubes tied. Now we don't have open enrollment and you just can't change back and forth without a change in circumstance, death, divorce, job change, etc. But I did write a letter to the small town hospital for her. I wrote that since she was already there, and the insurance had already paid for the operating room, anithesiologist(sp), recovery room and hospital room, she was NOT going to pay for them to have her tubes tied, since the doctor they employed wouldn't do it as previously scheduled. They basically agreed and she has her tubes tied and the hospital has made arrangements that Dr Quack does his job and another surgeon will step in for the tubal ligation. No extra appointments needed anymore.