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This procedure is so uncommon that I'm amazed it's caused the furor it has. I think mostly anti-abortion forces wanted some kind of symbolic victory.
I also think that necessity is the mother of invention, and if doctors can't perform "partial birth" abortions (which, frankly, do sound barbaric!) to save the mother's life, they'll either get better at diagnosing problems earlier so they can abort earlier, or develop other, less gruesome methods to terminate a dangerous pregnancy in the third trimester. I don't think this is the huge victory that anyone's painting it to be.
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