Category: Late Term Abortions

“McMahon is one of relatively few doctors in the country who specialize in performing abortions up to 24 weeks, or almost six months, into a pregnancy. He has, in dire circumstances, done them as far as 32 weeks from conception, just six weeks short of an average delivery date. For the most complicated procedures, he charges $8,000. For the easiest and earliest abortions, he charges $500, which is more than double the rate asked at most clinics.

“That’s my specialty,” this former altar boy says of abortion. “That’s my expertise. That’s my passion.”

LA Times, The Abortions of Last Resort, 1-7-1990

NOTE: At a 1992 National Abortion Federation conference Dr. Martin Haskell was quoted saying that McMahon “performs these [abortions] up to 32 weeks or more.”

Martin Haskell, M.D. “Dilatation and Extraction for Late Second Trimester Abortion.” Contained in National Abortion Federation “Second Trimester Abortion: From Every Angle.” Fall Risk Management Seminar, September 13-14, “1992 Dallas Texas. Presentations, Bibliography & Related Materials” 1992

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Abortion clinic employee on the women getting late term abortions:

“These women know they are pregnant, but not until the 16th or 17th week, when the fetus is kicking and bothering them, do they say, ‘Oh, I have to deal with this.’ It’s not that these women are bad, or they’re wrong. They’re just poor. They don’t lead organized, routine lives.”

LA Times, The Abortions of Last Resort, 1-7-1990

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“What’s the difference? Abortion is abortion. The nice folks who are debating this, who want to draw the line and put a limit on gestational age, will just be putting a restriction on poor women. Women who want abortions get them. It will just force the poor women back to unacceptable remedies.”

Anne Walshe, clinic administrator, on late term abortion

LA Times, The Abortions of Last Resort, 1-7-1990

Her clinic performs 16,000 abortions a year- half of them late.

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Abortion advocate on late term abortions:

“Pregnant women do not like to seek late abortions, doctors do not like to perform them. An abortion is not an abstract issue for the woman who seeks it. Her pregnancy is a pressing practical problem and seeks an abortion because she has reasons for wishing to end it. You may not agree with that reason and you may think it wrong for that woman to end her pregnancy. But your agreement and approval is of no consequence. The issue is: should you have the right to force a woman to endure pregnancy and labor because you disapprove of her reason.”

Pro-choice forum, The Law and ethics of Post Viability Abortion, by Dr. Andrew Fergusson and Ann Furedi-transcript of papers given at a seminar held at Kent University Law School in the Autumn Term 1997 http://www.prochoiceforum.org.uk/aad2.asp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Abortion advocate (Planned Parenthood’s Susan Newsom) on late term abortion legislation:

“It’s not the first choice for a lot of people. Everybody’s got his or her own ambivalence. Abortion is such a personal thing that people set personal criteria. The one thing we’re united on is it should be a woman’s decision and not the government’s.”

“Disagreement within abortion-rights ranks,” Boston Globe 1-16-1990
 

 

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In one article, a survey was done at 18 late-term abortion clinics. These clinics comprised of one third of all clinics that do late abortions.

The article says:

 “Only 9.4 percent of late abortions at clinics that responded to the U.S. News survey were done for medical reasons, either to protect the mother’s health(a rare situation) or, more commonly, because of fetal defects such as spina bifida and Down’s syndrome (box, Page 32)…for post-20-week abortions generally, about 90 percent were classified by the clinics as “nonmedical.”

It further quotes a clinic worker saying that most of these abortions are done on 10-18 year-olds in “total denial” of their pregnancies.

“When Abortions Come Late in Pregnancy” US News and World Report. Jan 19,1998 Vol 124 Issue 2

 

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