Supreme Court to hear case on late-term abortions

Pro-abortion rights advocates are alarmed by today's Supreme court decision to hear a case on late-term abortions, according to ABC News. They believe it signals a desire by the high court to impose further restrictions on the right to abortion established in the Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. It will be the first time abortion has come before the Supreme Court since President George W Bush appointed two conservative judges to the bench, according to BBC News. The case concerns a law passed in 2003 that banned partial-birth termination - a method of late-term abortion. "While 'partial birth' abortions are often described as 'late term' abortions, the Supreme Court in the past said this abortion method was constitutionally protected only during the first six months of a pregnancy," says David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times. "This is time when the fetus cannot live its own. After six months of a pregnancy, a fetus is usually considered 'viable' and capable of living outside its mother's womb."

Abortion is a heavy subject no matter how you look at it. The practice of late-term abortions is very questionable. The fact that they are also known as "partial birth" abortions makes it sound like a cruel and unethical practice to me. I believe that people should have the right to choose to have an abortion if that is what they truly desire, but to wait until a child is about to be born and then terminate it is very wrong. I could never let a child who is mine be aborted. I couldn't live with myself. I do not resent people who have chosen abortion though. Only God can judge us.