This would be a good policy for DEMOCRATS to promote, but not the Republicans. It’s a much better idea than their abortion-until-birth “Women’s Health Protection Act” bill. I definitely see the advantage of trying to reduce late term abortions by funding first trimester abortions. And I appreciate your support for the counseling idea.
I think a more viable solution might be to pair the bill with a federal restriction at the end of the 12 or 15 weeks, with clear, reasonable medical exceptions afterwards. That would make this a more viable, bipartisan deal.
Alternatively, if you don’t want to ban abortion, then I suggest you simply restrict the use of feticide against babies determined to be viable. Meaning, say she is 24 weeks along, and the doctor says that the baby is viable. The federal law doesn’t ban her from delivering the child at any time, but would NOT allow her to dismember the child or inject the fatal digoxin shot, or otherwise purposely fatally injure the child in the process of the early delivery, and all viable children would be required to be treated at the NICU. (Children with fatal/super-severe abnormalities and determined unlikely to survive infancy would not be considered “viable”.)
A mere ban at 36 weeks is wayyyy too late. The majority of babies born between 22-24 weeks will survive if treated at the NICU. That survival figure rises to 80% at 25 weeks, 90% at 26 weeks, and keeps rising until it’s 99% at 32 weeks. There is a concerning risk of long-term disability for the surviving babies born 22-24 weeks, but the majority of surviving babies born after 24 weeks have zero - to mild conditions, and after every week born, their prognosis significantly approves.
I also would suggest mandating fetal pain relief for all abortions after 12 weeks.
Babies after 12 weeks gestation are fully formed and capable of pain.
And for the majority of these second trimester abortions, the aborted baby is NOT given the fatal digoxin shot, NO fetal anesthesia and NO fetal pain relief.
Therefore, thousands of fully formed second trimester babies, capable of pain, are getting their limbs torn off, ALIVE and AWAKE, to feel the whole thing.
In some cases, they are born alive, either because they popped out just before the dismemberment started or because they were induced whole. Even nonviable babies born well before 22 weeks have been born alive… Even embryos and early fetuses were born alive, heart still beating, after the woman took abortion pills.
In red states, babies born alive from abortion are often required by law to be transported to the NICU.
But in pro-choice states, babies born alive are usually medically neglected. Sometimes a nurse will hold the baby. Sometimes the baby gets left to die in a metal tray. Or thrown in medical waste bags and buckets. Sometimes they’re drowned in a jar of liquid solution or their necks are broken or slashed. Their serial killers sometimes are forced to use violence to kill abortion survivors, in order to prevent the baby’s CRIES from alerting others, that the aborted baby survived.
I hope you find those things “morally gross” as well, I did a lot of research on this topic and organized all my links/sources/videos on my various google docs as a reference. I found that abortion, in all trimesters, is so much more horrible than you ever knew.
Anyway, I have also made a proposal related to abortion and maternal and fetal healthcare. I have a different approach, but I think you would appreciate the attempt that I’m making. Please consider it? Here’s the link.
FYI - the very first paragraph summarizes the whole idea of my proposal. The next few paragraphs offers a few disclaimers explaining its’ constitutionality, and the need for my proposal. Then I wrote a letter to Trump, RFK and the whole MAHA team. The actual content of my proposal comes after that and is much more organized/structured from there. It’s very detailed. Perhaps it could also give you ideas for your proposal, too.