Partial birth abortion questions – I can’t hear you?!

No one really attempted to answer my questions about this. I have consolidated the posts and am republishing them now. Any thoughts?

Some say that Cesarean sections are not a good choice in these type of life or death situations where only a partial birth abortion would suffice, because C-sections are more invasive and may interfere with the womans’ ability to have more children.

But if that is true, why are C-sections the one of the most commonly performed surgery in the United States? Why are some doctor’s even promoting the idea of women only have C-sections instead of vaginal birth under the umbrella of being “better” for the mother? And isn’t there also a risk with the D and X procedure in forcibly dilating the cervix? Isn’t there also the risk of infection, or harming the cervix and/or uterus with surgical instruments?

And if the D&E is so rarely performed anyway as many pro-abortion proponants have said, then wouldn’t the C-section be a safer option anyway since so many more physicians know how to do it and perform it hundreds of times a year?

I have heard some say that women will die if this procedure is unavailable. How many women died before this procedure was available? Do we know that these women would have been saved by a D&E instead? What are the statistics to prove that after the D&E procedure was developed and implemented that the maternal mortality improved?

If there are no guarantees, then how can all of these pro-abortion pronponants keep saying that the partial birth abortion (D&E) is lifesaving? Where is the guarantee that it absolutely will save the life of the mother each and every time it is used, especially when by their own statistics it is used so rarely that I wonder how anyone could have developed anywhere near the proficiency at it that average OB/GYN has with C-section! What about the associated risks of infection, damage to the cervix, uterus or other structures! The way they make it sound we have finally reached panacea folks- a risk free, infection free, blood-loss free procedure with no side effects, risks or potential complications!

I also don’t get this complete trust of the medical community where standard of care in just regular childbirth has been driven by fear of malpractice and compensation rates! Which brings me to another question, if the D&E is coded and reimbursed at a lesser rate than the Cesarean, I wonder how that will affect the recommendations of the doctors?

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