OK, this is the last abortion Q of the day, but it's actually serious! We can LEGALLY END 100% OF ABORTIONS?

OK, I have a completely legal, 100% effective way of ending abortion. In Roe v Wade, it says, and I quote:

(c) For the stage subsequent to viability, the State in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life may, if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe, abortion except where it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother.

OK, here's the deal. Right now, viability is about 22 weeks old. After that, most embryos can, with artificial aid, remain alive outside of the womb. Before that, their respiratory system is not developed enough to sustain them outside of the womb.

So, what can we do? Get help from Science! If we put enough resources into it (and it is important enough, so we can find the resources), we simply pay for scientific research into helping a younger fetus survive outside the womb!

And, since the rate of technology is increasing exponentially, if we start now I say in about 10 years we could have a 10 or 12 week old fetus surviving outside the womb. A few more years, a few more weeks. Any less than that, and by the time a woman realizes she is pregnant, it will be too late to have an abortion!

So, what do you think? Will it work? Can we scientifically end abortion?

I'm saddened that we live in an age of disposable children...
I would love for your idea to be at least tried out...we spend billions trying to figure out why a big mac will give your butt more dimples than a golf ball, How much are we willing to spend saving the little ones?

I'd love that. But a determined mother can still kill her child if she wants to.

I have proposed this to several pro lifers, and they aren;t going for it. if you want to get rid of abortion (which many don;t they just want to control women no matter what) than use your energy and resources to find a way to grow it outside of a woman. Plain and simple

And just who do you suggest fund this crap?

Not just the medical part the 20+ years of care.

I sort of agree, but are you going to keep all these kids at your house?

Will you pay medical expenses for women who would still get the procedure done illegally, and unlicensed?

I'm against abortion after a certain stage, but that's my opinion, I'm not going to judge someone else because they think differently. I do draw the line after about 6 months, unless it's in the fallopian tube or a severe defect/harm to both/either the mother or child.

Abortion is an issue meant to divide our great country and it's people. Realize that, and you will start to understand more.

No. Prohibition...
-doesnt work
-isnt "really" conservative
- is a sensatioanlist issues brought on by croked preachers.

Also, you really dont care about abortion, no normal person is all that much.

So you want to compel a woman to, what, take hormones or some kind of drug to strengthen the fetus she doesn't even want?

Now you're not only forcing her to give birth, you're forcing her to take drugs?

Your need to control others is insatiable, isn't it?

You would need to look at subsequent caselaw on this subject. Roe v. Wade was the beginning, but not the end.

Casey v. Doe, for example.

The key is over-turning these cases, which the Supreme Court has the ultimate power to do. And then send the issue back to the states, where it belonged in the first place.

like all solutions to issues.. there are quarks and problems with this and people are going to go overboard... but it's a start and you are using your head and logic instead of ranting.

Nice try, not going to happen. Sadly, the world is becoming even less sensitive to the plight of unwanted babies. The only real solution is to push adoption, cut back the red tape. There are so many women that would love to be mothers but can not.

How about we find a way to get people to understand how conception happens in the first place.

If they succeed in eliminating abortion, the bible-thumpers will attack birth control, like they were doing before Roe v. Wade.

Those fundie people won't be happy until everyone is living in caves bashing females over the heads with clubs and dragging them home by the hair.

No, the best thing is to make abortion illegal.

Oh, and I doubt that will ever happen, latest g. because of abortion issue, but it might if the democrats have their way with the war on terror.!

To pro-abortion proponets:

Does it not speak volumes to you what Roe a.k.a. Norma McCovey has to say on abortion?

http://www.leaderu.com/norma/

Scientists have already successfully gestated a lamb in an 'artificial womb,' so it's theoretically possible.

It'd be pretty darn expensive, though, and it's not like we're currently willing to put that much money into caring for unwanted children born conventionally, let alone those transplanted out of the wombs of women who don't want them.