During the partial-birth abortion debate, pro-choice activists claimed that late-term abortions were done only to save the life of the mother or on babies that had terrible disabilities. In reality, this was not true and is not true today. One doctor testified that the pregnant women she referred to a late-term abortionist had healthy pregnancies. According to National Right to Life:
“In testimony presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee on November 17, 1995, ob/gyn Dr. Nancy Romer of Dayton (the city in which Dr. Haskell operates one of his abortion clinics) testified that three of her own patients had gone to Haskell’s clinic for abortions “well beyond” 4 1/2 months into pregnancy, and that “none of these women had any medical illness, and all three had normal fetuses.”
“For what reasons are partial-birth abortions usually performed?” National Right to Life” here.
