"Flush" Update

From an article in the March 5, 2006 Washington Post.

"Roe established a right to abortion through the end of the second trimester. The latter part of that time frame has always been the most controversial. Improvements in neonatal care have made fetuses viable--capable of surviving delivery--earlier than was possible in 1973. That's why Justice O'Connor said Roe was "on a collision course with itself" and eventually led her colleagues to abandon the trimester framework. Meanwhile, sonograms and embryology have made people aware of how well developed fetuses are while still legally vulnerable to abortion. We even do surgery on fetuses now, which makes aborting them seem that much more perverse. These developments may explain, in part, why two-thirds of Americans think abortion should be illegal in the second trimester--and why anti-abortion activists targeted partial-birth abortions for legislative assault."(emphasis mine)

Looks like this guy read my blog, "I Flushed My Baby Down the Toilet." Seriously, though, this is an excellent, thoughtful article, and not just because it takes the position I advocated. You can read it
here.

And apropos of nothing at all, here's a link for a game to test your reflexes and memory:Redsquare.