Do I even need to answer that? Ridiculous.

Each of my three children were kicking and moving well before they were "viable" outside the womb (or 7 mos.).

I have a cousin who is still on record as the lowest weight premature baby ever born in Utah, born at six months (less than 1 pound). He's blind in one eye, has a heart defect and has had many hernia operations, but he's now a congressional aide, an Eagle scout, marathon runner and has an amazing singing voice (go figure).

Listen, I have given money (via United Way payroll deductions) to Planned Parenthood for years. I'm not rabidly pro-life. In an ideal world, there would be very, very few cases where someone needs an abortion, and would instead embrace adoption or other alternatives. I think most reasonable people understand that abortion needs to be a legal procedure (because it will happen anyway, if for no other reason).

Dr. C. Everett Koop, former surgeon general and no Republican, is on record as saying there is no situation - given the state of modern medicine - where we must choose a mother's life over the baby's when it comes to partial birth abortion. It's a non-starter of an argument and certainly no threat to the public at large to outlaw such a barbaric precedure. Anything beyond the first trimester is beyond the pale in my opinion - unless there is a very, very compelling reason for an abortion.

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