Left-leaning, pro-abortion media has been vocal in its criticism of late-term abortions and Born alive A failed abortion sometimes results in complete denial.
But sometimes truth creeps in among paragraphs of inclusive, sympathetic coverage of abortion in the final weeks of pregnancy. On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump grilled Vice President Kamala Harris about whether she supports abortion in the seventh, eighth or even ninth month of pregnancy. NBC News Published An article interviewing a late-term abortion doctor Hospitalized Abortion after 32 weeks is prohibited About 8 months.
The abortion doctor featured in the article is Dr. Warren Hahn, who has run the Boulder Abortion Clinic in Colorado since 1975 and specializes in second- and third-trimester abortions. The report points out that while many of the cases treated by Dr. Hahn are due to some sort of fetal abnormality, some are simply “unwanted.”
“But not all of Hahn's patients are in Emma's position – some only seek treatment when it's too late. Not required Pregnancy due to abortion ban Long waiting times at the clinic Late Periodegg It's time,” the article reads.
The NBC News article quoted Hahn as claiming that he would not perform abortions in the eighth or ninth months. Atlantic Ocean Published In May 2023, he acknowledged that he could be more than 32 weeks pregnant.
One woman the reporter spoke to recalled having an abortion at 35 weeks pregnant after her unborn baby was diagnosed with a brain abnormality that would mean it would live with disabilities. She described late abortions as “euthanasia” and said:I put the baby down.”
Contrary to the NBC News article, Hahn Atlantic Ocean The interviews found that many late-term abortions are unwanted for reasons other than fetal abnormalities.
“An abortion following a dire medical diagnosis may be understandable to some, but Hahn estimates that at least half of the women who come to his clinic, and sometimes more, have no such diagnosis. He and his staff are sympathetic to other situations as well,” the article states.
The article continues:
For Hahn, the reason isn't so important. A fetus's medical viability, or ability to survive outside the womb, is generally considered to be between 24 and 28 weeks. But Hahn believes that a fetus's viability is determined not by the number of weeks of pregnancy, but by whether the woman is willing to carry the fetus. He applies the same principle to every prospective patient: If he determines that an abortion would be safer than carrying the fetus and carrying it to term, he takes the case. Usually, he does so until about 32 weeks, but there are rare exceptions after that because of the increased risk of bleeding and other life-threatening conditions.
Dr Hahn also acknowledged that he had performed two sex-selection abortions, “one with this woman and one with someone who desperately wanted a girl” and that “it was their choice.”
According to the report, in the 1970s, he also aborted fetuses at 15 or 16 weeks of pregnancy whose hearts were still beating when they were removed from their mothers before dying outside the womb.
NBC News found that there are only five abortion clinics in the country that perform abortions on fetuses after 28 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion FinderPro-life groups backed by Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation estimate there are eight such groups: One in Maryland Hospitals that are said to be performing abortions up to 35 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy About 1 day shorter It is considered the beginning of the ninth month of pregnancy.
Each year, thousands of unborn babies are killed through abortions after 21 weeks of pregnancy. The media portrays late-term abortions as rare, as they account for a small percentage of total abortions, resulting in the loss of thousands of unborn babies' lives.
For example, there were 625,978 legal abortions. Recorded According to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2021, the number of aborted babies exceeds 2,000. Of these, 1% occurred after the 21st week of pregnancy, meaning that more than 6,000 babies past the stage of viability were killed in abortions. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute said: Estimation More than 1 million abortions will be performed in 2023, and the CDC estimates that at least 10,000 late-term abortions may have been performed that year.
There is disagreement about what the term “late-term abortion” actually means. Pro-life groups often reject the term, say The official medical definition of “late stage” is past 41 weeks, or full term. The pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute It is called The definition of a late-term abortion is “imprecise and variable,” but it is generally defined as an abortion that occurs late in pregnancy, typically when the fetus is capable of survival outside the uterus, “with some cases occurring as early as 22 weeks' gestation or slightly earlier.”
The Atlantic article described in brutal detail Dr. Hahn's method of performing late-term abortions, noting that “in some cases the fetus remains intact,” but in other cases “parts of the fetus must be removed.”
Nine states and Washington, D.C., have no restrictions on abortion. According to Go to Abortion Finder. These states are Alaska, Vermont, Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, Maryland and New Jersey. Roe v. WadeA 1973 Supreme Court decision that created a constitutional right to abortion, now invalid, allowed most states to perform abortions up to the viable period, between 20 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. Some states allowed abortions after that, subject to certain health exceptions.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on X. Follow.
