IF IT'S NOT ALIVE, WHY ARE YOU KILLING IT? Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner writes:

Making Sure That Baby's Dead

Boston Globe:

In response to the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, many abortion providers in Boston and around the country have adopted a defensive tactic. To avoid any chance of partially delivering a live fetus, they are injecting fetuses with lethal drugs before procedures.

More:

The injections are generally done in abortions after 18 or 20 weeks gestation. (Massachusetts bans virtually all abortions at and beyond the 24th week, except to protect the life or health of the mother.) Medical staff inject either the heart drug digoxin or potassium chloride, a potentially poisonous salt also used in state executions.

Seems an awful long way to go to kill something that is not supposed to be a living thing yet.
Abortion by lethal injection--and this they call a defensive tactic?

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