Is abortion legal at any stage of pregnancy in the US?

Question

if yes, please provide an official link, not wikipedia. Thanks alot

ok i just asked a question regarding US laws. I am a guy and I am neither married nor there is anyone pregnant with my baby.

It is just a legal question..

Answer 1

Yes, only up to 12 weeks gestation.

It's one of few countries where murdering an innocent life is perfectly acceptable, but carrying out the death sentence of a prison inmate is unethical.

Answer 2

As the law is written, abortion can take place at any stage. Many states interpret the legal time limit as "when the fetus can be viable outside the womb". There are no hard and fast rules, thank goodness....these decisions should be between the woman and her doctor.

While the rarely used "partial birth" abortion has been "banned", you can bet that in the operating room, if the mothers life is at risk, all measures would be taken to save her life.

Until the government puts a law enforcement officer in each and every delivery room to "observe", what goes on in that room is between doctor and patient.

As for abortion, no one can FORCE a woman to give birth if she chooses not to. No one has control over her body except HER. There were abortions before Roe (since the beginning of time) and, should Roe be overturned, there will continue to be abortions. The ONLY difference is with Roe, it is a safe medical practice. Without Roe, many women will die due to back alley butchers using kitchen table for the procedure.

This is an excerpt from the referenced website:

The official report of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, issued in 1983 after extensive hearings on the Human Life Amendment (proposed by Senators Hatch and Eagleton), stated what substantially remains true today:

“ Thus, the [Judiciary] Committee observes that no significant legal barriers of any kind whatsoever exist today in the United States for a woman to obtain an abortion for any reason during any stage of her pregnancy. [2] ”

One aspect of the legal abortion regime now in place has been determining when the fetus is "viable" outside the womb as a measure of when the "life" of the fetus is its own (and therefore subject to being protected by the state). In the majority opinion delivered by the court in Roe v. Wade, viability was defined as "potentially able to live outside the woman's womb, albeit with artificial aid. Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks." When the court ruled in 1973, the then-current medical technology suggested that viability could occur as early as 24 weeks. Advances over the past three decades have allowed fetuses that are a few weeks less than 24 weeks old to survive outside the woman's womb. These scientific achievements, while life-saving for premature babies, have made the determination of being "viable" somewhat more complicated. As of 2006, the youngest child to survive a premature birth in the United States was a girl born at the Baptist Hospital of Miami at 21 weeks and 6 days' gestational age.[3]

Answer 3

Technically, you will get an abortion until the third trimester. nonetheless i think of it is going to be understood that purely a million% of abortions ensue after the 20 th week. via that component, human beings searching for abortions are searching for for them because of the fact there is something heavily incorrect with the being pregnant or their very own wellbeing. additionally, there are in simple terms some medical doctors keen to accomplish abortions previous 24 weeks. it extremely is on proper of the undeniable fact that 87% of counties interior the united statesdo no longer have an abortion provider, and a few states purely have one (a million) abortion provider. So, nonetheless it could ensue interior the third trimester, that's totally no longer likely too and it is going to be because of the fact of a scientific emergency.

Answer 4

only up until 12 weeks and in rare cases 20 weeks. after that not considered legal. Partial birth abortions which were rare and only in the cases of saving the life of the mother was banned. This form of termination had occurred in <0.5 of 1% of all terminations in the nation

Answer 5

Abortion is murder...it would be a terrible thing to do. Don't abort the baby, just have the baby and then put it up for adoption. It's a much better choice in the long run.

Answer 6

yes abortion is legal. No don't give your baby up for adoption. Adoption hurts!! it messes up peoples lives permanently. If you carry through with a pregnancy, parent. Parenting is the BEST option!!
http://www.americanwomensservices.com

Answer 7

only if the mother's life is at risk..I believe by choice it is not performed after 24 weeks

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/birth-control-pregnancy/abortion/procedures.htm

Answer 8

Thanks to the Great Liberator, GWB, SCOTUS picks - partial birth abortion is no more!