The problem with creating language requiring medical necessity for late term abortions is that you end up with laws like we used to have in Virginia that required a panel of 3 doctors to determine if it was medically necessary.
A lot of the instances where this would happen are emergencies, and it risks lives to have to take the time to assemble a panel, when Doctors should be trusted to make these calls with their patients.
Democrats have a hard time articulating this point, since it gets the republicans an out of context soundbite that they can run 100 times a day in commercials saying the Democrat wants to kill infants.
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