Pro-lifer Mark Crutcher explains how information about the risks of abortion given to women at abortion clinics are often inaccurate, because all women get the same information regardless of how far along they are or what health problems they already have:
“The problem is that almost every risk factor increases – sometimes dramatically – as the pregnancy progresses. It has also been documented that young girls are considerably more like suffer certain injuries than are adult women and that conditions like obesity or diabetes also increase the risks associated with having an abortion.
However, under the current system, a 12-year-old obese diabetic undergoing a 24 week abortion is given the same informed consent as a thin and healthy 25-year-old who’s having a 10 week abortion – despite the fact that the 12-year-old patient faces a much higher possibility of injury or death.
Studies have also found that injuries are more likely to occur in abortions that are performed by nonphysicians. If the informed consent document a woman is given states that a particular injury occurs only once every X number of all abortions, but they are providing a nonphysician to do her abortion, she has been deceived.”
Mark Crutcher Siege: Pro-Life Field Manual (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Inc., 2015) 140
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