1. The vast majority of Americans oppose late-term abortions.
According to a January 2019 Marist Poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus, 75 percent of Americans believe abortion should be restricted to the first three months of pregnancy or only for narrow reasons like to save the life of the mother. Well over half of Americans — 59 percent — support a ban on abortions after 20 weeks gestation like the one proposed by President Trump.
2. Alaska, Colorado, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and the District of Columbia currently have no gestational limits on abortion.
Many other states allow for exceptions, including the broad and undefined “health” of the mother clause that essentially allows abortionists to conduct abortions up until the time of birth.
3. There are 133 abortion clinics in the US that will conduct abortions at 20 weeks or later.
That number is down from 2016 when there were 164.
4. Planned Parenthood is expanding rapidly into the late-term abortion market.
While other abortion providers are getting out of the late term baby killing business, Planned Parenthood is rapidly expanding into it. In just two years, PP has more than doubled the number of clinics that do them.
5. There are currently six abortion clinics that openly advertise doing abortions up until the moment of birth.
Six late term abortion clinics advertise that they will kill babies throughout all nine months of pregnancy. They are in California, Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, and D.C.
Laws in three of these states limit abortion to 22 weeks (Ohio), 27 weeks (Maryland), and 28 weeks (New Mexico). Clearly, these laws are NOT being enforced.
6. During late-term abortions, labor is induced and women are forced to deliver often intact dead babies.
Most clinics that offer third trimester abortions use the Induction Abortion method, a modification of the now-banned Partial Birth Abortion process. Induction abortions are done over 2-4 days depending on the size of the baby.
First, the growing baby is killed in the womb with a lethal injection of the drug Digoxin. Next, thin dilators are inserted into the woman’s cervix that slowly expand to create an opening. This process may be repeated over two or three days. Women are then given a drug called Misoprostol (Cytotec) to induce contractions.
The women return home or to their hotel room to endure labor until they are ready to deliver and they are allowed to report back to the clinic to deliver. Depending on the circumstances, the baby may be birthed intact or removed by dismemberment. Documentation shows that women sometimes give birth to intact babies in their hotel rooms.
7. Babies are sometimes born alive during late-term abortions.
Digoxin injections delivered correctly fail about 13% of the time. If the drug is injected into the amniotic sac instead of into the fetus, the failure rate can be as high as 70%.
- Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted in 2013 for murdering babies born alive during late-term abortions at his West Philadelphia “House of Horrors” abortion clinic.
- Texas abortionist Douglas Karpen is currently under investigation by the FBI for allegations made by his own clinic workers that he was also allowing babies to be born alive only to kill them as they struggled for life. The workers supported their claims with photos taken at Karpen’s Houston abortion clinic depicting gruesome images of babies who immediately after their deaths, whose bodies bore wounds that could not have been inflicted while they were still inside the womb.
- In another instance, a nurse who worked for the late George Tiller, a Wichita, Kansas, abortionist that once operated the largest late-term abortion clinic outside Communist China, confessed to witnessing the stabbing death of a baby born alive during a 35-week abortion. However, police were unable to make an arrest because Tiller operated an industrial crematorium inside his clinic where the evidence in the form of the baby’s dead body was destroyed.
8. After 18 weeks gestation, the risks to the mother of aborting is greater than the risks of carrying the pregnancy to term.
9. Tax dollars are paying for late-term abortions.
Alaska, California, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia provide tax-funding to pay for abortions.
- In 2012, the New Mexico Human Services Department documented that late-term abortionists made up to $50,000 each in tax funding for doing late term abortions, which are supposedly illegal in New Mexico.
- In 2017, Californians paid out $28 million in state tax dollars to pay for abortions, including those done beyond the first trimester.
10. President Donald J. Trump fully supports ending late-term abortions.
SOURCE:
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