This is the part of Don's post that applies to what I was talking about.

'Long-standing, unchallenged statutes in 40 states and the District of Columbia prohibit elective abortions by any method after fetal viability. Moreover, women do not carry healthy pregnancies for seven or eight months and then abort on a whim. On those extremely rare occasions when third-trimester abortions are performed, they are done because the fetus has severe or fatal anomalies or because the pregnancy endangers the life or health of the woman. In these cases, the existing statutes do not apply because it is a matter of of medical necessity, and is, therefore, not "elective." '

I had assumed that the discussion was about "elective" abortions. Whether or not "Partial Birth Abortion" is a Trojan horse is beside my point (though I believe it is indeed a Trojan horse), as is the description of the third-trimester abortion, which it seems does *not* occur electively in 40 states and the District of Columbia. Do you have any information on how often it occurs in the other 10 states? I would suspect Don is right when the says "women do not carry healthy pregnancies for seven or eight months and then abort on a whim."

clint