April 30, 2007 - 1:00am
Deckhead:
Re: “Life and Death,” Opinion, April 24
Body:
To the Editor:
I would like to address certain statements made by Laura Taylor in her column on April 24 concerning the recent Supreme Court upholding of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. To begin, Taylor argues that the ban could restrict all abortions after 12 weeks. In reality, this bill only bans partial-birth abortions, defined as any abortion in which the baby is delivered “past the [baby’s] navel … outside the body of the mother.” At this point in development, the unborn child is 5-6 months old — much further along than 12 weeks.
