Questions about the Partial Birth Abortion Ban

I’ve been reading on line, in the newspapers, magazines, even e-mail all of the uproar about the Supreme Court upholding the ban on Partial Birth Abortions. Certainly the Catholic Supreme Court Justices are getting lots of knocks for their religious beliefs. I’ve hear so much emotional rhetoric about how awful this is from the pro-abortion side that I have a few questions of my own.

So in the style of Katie Couric, here are my questions!

Some say that Cesarean sections are not a good choice in these type of life or death situations where only a partial birth abortion would suffice, because C-sections are more invasive and may interfere with the womans’ ability to have more children.

But if that is true, why are C-sections the one of the most commonly performed surgery in the United States? Why are some doctor’s even promoting the idea of women only have C-sections instead of vaginal birth under the umbrella of being “better” for the mother? And isn’t there also a risk with the D and X procedure in forcibly dilating the cervix? Isn’t there also the risk of infection, or harming the cervix and/or uterus with surgical instruments?

And if the D&E is so rarely performed anyway as many pro-abortion proponants have said, then wouldn’t the C-section be a safer option anyway since so many more physicians know how to do it and perform it hundreds of times a year?

I have heard some say that women will die if this procedure is unavailable. How many women died before this procedure was available? Do we know that these women would have been saved by a D&E instead? What are the statistics to prove that after the D&E procedure was developed and implemented that the maternal mortality improved?

Lots of inflammatory rhetoric, but not a lot of factual answers!

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