Category: Late Term Abortions

Ann Furdedi, a pro-choice speaker, is quoted saying:

“I looked at the gestations of some of these late terminations and was shocked to discover the latest termination was of a pregnancy of 37 weeks. My own son was born at 37 weeks and he was not regarded as a premature baby. There are two ways you can think about the woman who had this abortion. You can see her as the most callous, brutal woman whoever existed, or you think of her as the most desperate woman on earth to have requested abortion at that stage. My view is that she would be the most desperate woman on earth to consider that her child would be better not born alive. I think the last thing women need is the law dictating and restricting choice and making judgments about their decisions. Women are the people who have to live with the choices they make and they should decide, regardless of the stage in pregnancy.”

“Pro-choice Forum “The Law and Ethics of Post-Viability Abortions” by Dr. Andrew Fergusson and Ann Furedi

 

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A reporter at the Washington Post is recorded saying:

“I didn’t know it at the time, of course, and maybe the people who supplied my data — the usual pro-choice groups — were giving me what they thought was precise information. And precise I was. I wrote that “just four one-hundredths of one percent of abortions are performed after 24 weeks” and that “most, if not all, are performed because the fetus is found to be severely damaged or because the life of the mother is clearly in danger.”

It turns out, though, that no one really knows what percentage of abortions are late-term. No one keeps figures. But my Washington Post colleague David Brown looked behind the purported figures and the purported rationale for these abortions and found something other than medical crises of one sort or another. After interviewing doctors who performed late-term abortions and surveying the literature, Brown — a physician himself — wrote: “These doctors say that while a significant number of their patients have late abortions for medical reasons, many others — perhaps the majority — do not.”…In the latter stages of pregnancy, the word abortion does not quite suffice; we are talking about the killing of the fetus — and, too often, not for any urgent medical reason.”

Richard Cohen “A New Look at Late-Term Abortion: A Rigid Refusal to Even Consider Society’s Interest in the Matter that Endangers Abortion Rights” Washington Post Sept 24,1996

 

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“Of women who had an abortion at 16 or more weeks’ gestation, 71% attributed their delay to not having realized they were pregnant or not having known soon enough the actual gestation of their pregnancy. Almost half were delayed because of trouble in arranging the abortion, usually because they needed time to raise money. One-third did not have an abortion earlier because they were afraid to tell their partner or their parents that they were pregnant.”

Alan Guttmacher Institute

Aida Torres and Jacqueline Darroch Forrest, “Why Do Women Have Abortions”, Family Planning Perpectives, 20 (4) Jul/Aug 1988, pp 169-176 (The bimonthly research journal of The Alan Guttmacher Institute

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Ron Fitzsimmons, about one type of late term abortion procedure, D&X:

“The majority of these procedures are performed in the late second trimester on healthy women and healthy fetuses. That’s — the law allows that. Women come in at that point unfortunately, for whatever reason, seeking abortion services. We estimate that approximately 3,000 to 5,000 are performed in the United States on an annual basis.”

ABC Nightline Transcript #97022601-J07, Feb 26, 1997

Remember, this was only one method of late-term abortion. D&X (partial-birth) abortions are now illegal, but abortions continue to be done late in pregnancy

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Dr. Mary Campbell, medical director of Planned Parenthood of Metro Washington:

“Clearly they’re anxious to prosecute anybody who’s doing second- or third-trimester abortions. I know people who have said that this would be the end of their third-trimester practice, and probably their second.”

Wider Impact is Foreseen for Bill to Ban Type of Abortion” New York Times Nov. 6 1995

She clearly reveals that there are doctors whose “practices” are performing second and third trimester abortions- proof that these abortions are indeed legal and being done.

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In an article on the feminist website “CWLU Herstory Project” the following statement is made about late term abortion and its effect on providers:

“For the abortionist, the pure physical strain is remarkable. Pulling large pieces of fetal material through a resisting cervix takes a lot of strength. Huge blisters on hands are an occupational by-product – one can frequently identify an abortionist by placement of calluses caused by the instruments.”

CWLU Herstory Project http://www.cwluherstory.com/part-iv.html 

The “material” of course, consists of arms, legs, heads, etc.

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Abortionist Warren Hern:

The startling thing to me was that a very large room was filled — packed. Twenty years ago, there were just two or three doctors in the country doing late abortions.” (Responding to the competitive business of late term abortion).

GINA KOLATA As Abortion Rate Decreases, Clinics Compete for Patients: NY Times,12-30-2000

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The late doctor Tiller used to offer his patients keepsakes of their dead children. From his website:

“If you so desire, we can give you our certificate of premature miscarriage. We can take a lock of hair, if you wish. You may have fetal footprints, if you wish. We can do about whatever it is that you would like to have done.”

Below are pictures two parents had taken at Dr. Tiller’s clinic of them and their aborted child. They had the picture taken as a memento of the baby. Later, the couple came to regret the abortion and gave the pictures to a pro-life organization

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