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Law permits abortion after six months of pregnancy

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Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

A law legalizing abortion after the 24th week, or six months, of pregnancy was signed by Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York on Jan. 22. A second law made it illegal for a police officer to report the killing of even a full-term baby as homicide.

See factcheck.org on the New York RHA, Reproductive Health Act legalizing abortion.

After the 24th week of life, the mother can demand an abortion even up to the moment of birth. The N.Y. law states, that a late-term abortion can be justified if the health of the mother (or fetus not viable) as stated by a health care professional.

"Health" can be loosely defined. Health care professionals include nurse practitioners and physician's assistants, who are not required to take the original Hippocratic Oath. Most medical doctors on Maui took this solemn oath "to do no harm and to give no poison."

"My Choice!" is the strident scream. But aren't 50 percent of the aborted babies females?

Psalms 139: the Lord sees our "yet unformed bodies" as we were being formed in our mothers' wombs.

Live Aloha: "Alo," in the presence of "ha," breath of life.

Susan Lussier

Kahului

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