Yeah, "partial-birth abortion" turns out to be a procedure not exclusively used on full-term fetuses, but usually used on, as I mentioned below, fetuses that are severely hydrocephalic, can't be delivered normally and may have a slim-to-zero chance of living in any event. And the only sense in which it's "partial-birth" is that the obstetrician pulls the feet out through the cervix before puncturing the fetus's head; complete birth in that manner could never happen. It's revolting, no doubt about it, but when it's done it's usually deemed the safest thing for the mother, which is why the ban couldn't have an exception for the health of the mother, just for the mother's life: a health exception would render it null and void.

I think that most people with anti-abortion attitudes are sincerely trying to protect what they think of as babies who are being murdered. I also think that they're often led astray by bad information, sometimes promulgated maliciously. I think that many of the leaders of the movement have a different motivation that is not so much misogynistic per se as just very conservative: they believe that people have essential roles they are born into, that the essential role women are born into is to be wives and mothers, that the sex act has an essential role of making babies and that disturbing this order is wrong.

Philip K. Dick, though, he had some serious woman issues.