Blog Mirror: George F. Will: Democrats are the real abortion extremists

George F. Will:  Democrats are the real abortion extremists

From this very good op-ed, a surprising set of facts:

Whether a 20-week fetus has neurological pathways sufficient for feeling pain is surely a question that science can answer, if it has not already. Already there are myriad intrauterine medical procedures, some involving anesthesia: Doctors can heal lives that America’s extremely permissive abortion law says can be terminated with impunity. Only seven nations allow unrestricted abortion after 20 weeks. Most European nations restrict abortions by at least week 13. France and Germany are very restrictive after 12, Sweden after 18.

Well worth reading. 

This entire topic, I'd note, is disturbing in the extreme.  Will goes into the nature of the United States Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which nearly anyone who actually reads it is generally horrified by, given its lack of real cogent analysis on what its opining on, but at least in 1973 science had not advanced to the point where a debate on whether a fetus was really a human being hadn't reached the point of completely lacking credibility.  It has now for quite some time.  The Democratic Party's antiquated death grip, quite literally, on this issue, lead by antiquated Democrats, has really reached the point where its a sort of bloody, inhumane, farce.