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Entry: No, McCain Won't End Abortion Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/mccain_wont_end_abortion#22023 Post contents: If ending 1st trimester abortion isn't the goal, there really isn't a point. When we get to 2nd and third trimester abortions, we are talking in at least half the cases of babies with fetal abnormalities. If one is too quesy to end 1st trimester abortion, they'll be too quesy to end it in that circumstance. Even if you could get abortion strictly banned in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, you would be looking at under a 20% reduction in abortion. Certainly it is better than nothing, but it ain't much. And if we aren't willing to criminalize it, one has difficulty seeing how we are going to reduce abortion. Sure, many pro-lifers claim they are willing to charge doctors, but how are they going to handle the obstruction cases brought against the women who sought the abortionist's services? They aren't going to handle it well, because they have great difficulty even handling the fact that women choose to have abortions because they want them; most of the movement can't even bring themselves to say that women who procure abortions are acting with malice. Opposition to abortion in this country is a chymera, and it is a damn shame, because the consequences are so grave. Sent at: 2008 07 08