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So the failure to "properly" kill these babies is "sub-standard medicine"?

I'm surprised that the killing of babies can even be considered a branch of medicine.  The things abortion "doctors" do are the antithesis of medicine.  In fact, abortion was banned under the Hippocratic Oath, at least until liberals got their bloody hands on the oath in the 1960s:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_classical.html

Yea , I guess you could call attempted murder sub-standard medicine.

What an amazing woman you've highlighted here.  I don't know how her story could fail to give anyone pause.  And abortions allowed at any age because of disability?  My God.

I have a question about the numbers, though.

They are working toward reducing the legal upper limit for abortions from 24 weeks to 18 weeks, which would halve the yearly number of abortions in the UK.

From their website:

More than 200,000 babies are aborted in Britain each year.

...

More than 3000 a year are killed after 20 weeks.

Half of 200,000 = 100,000

3,000 would be eliminated by the ban because they happen at post-20 weeks.  But that still leaves 97,000 to get to half--do these numbers mean that 97,000 abortions (48.5% of the total number) occur between 18 and 20 weeks?  What am I missing?

Only health insurance that covers abortion may be given to Federal Employees.  The Catholic's health insurance is being made an option this year because of the magic of tax free HSA.

Forget the Hippocratic Oath in England.  A smart brain surgeon said it well in Overdose of Socialism:

As explained by Hillary Clinton in testimony to the Senate Finance Committee on September 30, 1994, the Administration's socialized medicine plan would not deny treatment unless "it is not appropriate," meaning that in the view of government regulators, it "will not enhance or save the quality of life." What of doctors who took their Oath of Hippocrates seriously and sought to provide treatments not covered by the federal plan? Under HillaryCare, if doctors provided "unauthorized" treatment on a fee-for-service basis, they would have been subject to fines as large as $50,000, forfeiture of their property, and -- in some cases -- life imprisonment. When such horrific provisions received widespread publicity, the HillaryCare scheme was defeated -- apparently. It is not widely understood that the Administration's rejected plan to socialize health care merely amplified the statist trend presently undermining our health care system. That trend is best described as "corporate socialized medicine" -- or, if one prefers, medical fascism.

Under the ethics of Hippocrates, physicians place the interest of the individual patient above that of the practitioner or society at large. But under corporate socialized medicine, or what is more commonly known as "managed competition," the physician is required to place cost considerations and the interest of third-party payers -- such as insurance companies and Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) -- above the concerns of the patient. This leads to the adoption of what Swiss physician-philosopher Ernest Truffer calls the "veterinary ethic," in which the human patient is treated like a pet and provided with the type of medical care determined by the "master" -- in this case, the person or corporation responsible for paying the medical bills.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/06-21-99/vo15no13_overdose.htm

Vote for Hillary and be treated like a dog.

Earlier this year I stumbled upon this article in the London Telegraph.  It is particularly fitting to be posted in the discussion of this post as it points directly to the incredible contradiction in terms between "practicing medicine" and providing abortions of convenience to otherwise-would-be mothers.  The article I linked to is an opinion piece regarding the illegal murder, and lack of prosecution afterwards, by two doctors of a 28 week old fetus - ostensibly because the fetus was diagnosed with bilateral cleft lip/palate.  Importantly, the author of the piece was born ~28 years ago with the same defect, which is easily treated and generally poses no post-treatment risks to the children afflicted by it.

~Big Tom

on that one.  Make sure you re-post and re- re- post that in '08 when Hillary is named Homecoming Queen by the Dems.  What a sow!  Only because she is a little crazier than most Dems did she put on the table what most of them wish for and feel. The second day after her plan came out the NY Times did a story on it that included a nonchalant mention of ten year jail sentences for patients who would go outside the syatem, the sort of thing you would give to Columbian drug runners.  Sen George Mitchell scrubbed that in a hurry knowing it could have destroyed the party.  The so called base should only know,but if they did ,would they care?  The "and then they came for me" bit,which liberals love to use, would take on a special irony because Hillary wouldn't care who is thrown behind bars.  "Dogs", in the eyes of the left we're all dogs.