Last month ladies were officially declared second class citizens by the Federal Supreme court which found that its constitutional for lawmakers [aka white men] to decide what kind medical care we need. In short the court upheld the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban." Despite the fact that "partial birth abortion" is not a recognized term.

What is medically recognized:

• 90% of abortions occur in the first trimester.
  
• Intact dilation and extraction [also known as IDX, or sometimes just D&X] is used in 17% of all abortions.
  
• It is probable that the majority of IDX proceedures are performed because of fetal abnormalities.
  
• IDX because it delivers a fetus whole, creates less risk of uterine perfortation from bone fragments than other forms of late term abortion.
  
• IDX has less risk of infection than other forms of late term abortion, because it takes less time and requires the insertion fewer instruments into the uterus.
  
• IDX [like other late term abortion proceedures] can prevent a woman who has found that her fetus is dead or not viable from having to undergo labor and delivery of a dead fetus.
  
• Most IDX proceedures are performed between 20-24 weeks gestation, that is within the second trimester, before fetal viability. In cases where a fetus has severe hydrocephalus, the options to a woman may be IDX or cesarean section, a three day outpatient proceedure or major surgry with attendent potential complications.
  
• The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists explicitly opposed the ban
  

  The law allos for IDX to be performed to save a woman's life, but not to save for example, her uterus. Because there are other surgical options for laste term abortions, it is highly unlikely that banning IDX will prevent a single abortion. It may however, prevent some women from having the safest proceedure for their particular circumstances

  
  

  What the Federal Supreme Court decided, in essence, is that a woman's right to make her own medical decisions is less important than preventing right wing republican neocon misogynist male legislators to have that groovy Jerry Falwell/ Pat Robertson/ James Dobson...euphoria about fetal heads being punctured. Our safety as women is less important than their anti women and neocon agenda. In their book its far better to bring the fetus to birth have it grow up to eighteen years of age enlist he/she to Bush's Iraq war and have its head punctured by mortar fire somehow idiot republicans see that as more dignified. All i can do is urge my sisters in solidarity and fight the good fight for our rights We are women in numbers too big to ignore!

  
  

  Sources: Salon: Doctors Right To Choose Library of Congress Congressional Research Report SBR Abortion Proceedures Susanne Batchelor: Abortion Proceedures Ban Limits Endings For Doomed Pregnancies Planned Parenthood: PPA Opposes Abortion Ban Legislation Religious Tolerance.Org Wickipedia: Entry on intact dialation and extraction Wickipedia: hydrocephalus