do you support any abortion restrictions?

[Torie]

Sure, some. But not in the first trimester.

[Torie]

To people who are basing restrictions on trimesters: Why? Is there anything specific about the beginning of a specific trimester that causes you to oppose abortion once that point is passed? Wouldn't it just be better to tie restrictions to specific fetal developments than to tie it to the beginning of a trimester? If you support trimester-based restrictions because fetal developments that are tied to the beginning of a certain trimester, what development?

The break point of the first trimester is a reasonably proxy for when brain waves start, and the fetus begins to look human.

[Torie]

Without knowing what I would find, on the emotional effects on women of having an abortion, I found this. No real negative impact. I find that a bit surprising, since anecdotally I am under the impression, that some women feeling guilty and regretful about having done it down the road. But if so, not enough to roil the waters that much apparently vis a vis their emotional well being.

[Torie]

DC, as a point of clarification, I assume that you don't support executing "abortionists" unless and until the commission of effecting an abortion becomes the crime of murder, as in murder in the 1st degree (with aggravated circumstances, typically). Is that correct? In which event, your opinion is sort of entirely hypothetical, since such an act has next to no chance in the US, or in any other developed Western nation, to ever become that serious a crime, if a crime at all. Is it further true that you support the policy of no legal exceptions to the no abortions policy, except perhaps to save the life of the mother? Just curious about the latter.