Yup. it's infanticide.

the zeal about late term abortion is not about womens' health (when a woman has cancer or pre eclampsia, you try to save the baby). and if the fetus has a fatal abnormality (e.g. anencephaly with polyhydramnos) you deliver the kid early because it won't live.

 In some cases when the mom has to deliver the baby due to her medical problems, the baby is so premature and has no breathing and heartbeat, and maybe a premature who is born with abnomalities isn't breathing, so maybe you might not resusitate a child with many malformations, at least you could argue this in the past:  but in a major hospital often you can save a one pound kid and malformations can be fixed, so it's hard to make that argument today.

But this is normal pregnancies: There is little excuse for late "abortions" done to kill the kid, which is why they do "partial birth abortions" despite the fact this is holds risk to the mother (i.e. torn cervix with hemorrhage or uterine perforation).

The argument is that this is rare and only done for fetal abnormalities, but the dirty little secret is that a lot of the "fetal abnormalities" are compatible with life (e.g. Down's syndrome) so delivering early and putting the kid in the corner to die is equivalent of infanticide.

but National Review has the real dirty little secret about these late abortions: according to the Guttmacher institute, 80 percent are due to social reasons.

most are done because mom decides to do it, and she doesn't see killing a baby who could live outside the womb as a problem.

when abortion was first made legal, we had some of these kids in our Neonatal ICU, but we also know some were left in the corner to die. And yes, most of them were for social reasons.

Sigh.

another dirty little secret: 50 years ago, when the docs ordered no resusitation, often the nurses took the kids to the nursery, and when the doctors ordered them not to be fed, the nurses fed them anyway.

wonder if this is still going on.