{"id":163358,"date":"2016-03-12T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=163358"},"modified":"2017-03-13T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:13:21","slug":"if-late-term-abortion-isnt-torture-its-hard-to-imagine-what-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/if-late-term-abortion-isnt-torture-its-hard-to-imagine-what-is\/","title":{"rendered":"If late-term abortion isn’t torture, it’s hard to imagine what is"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Torture has been in the news a lot. Even GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged to inflict \u201ca hell of a lot worse than waterboarding\u201d on suspected terrorists. While Trump didn\u2019t specify what tactics he would use, a report<\/a> in 2014 detailed ones the CIA has employed in the past. They included mock executions, long term sleep deprivation, exposure to cold temperatures, and \u201crectal feeding,\u201d with at least one person dying during an interrogation. There were limits, though. For example, intelligence personnel never subjected anyone to dismemberment.<\/p>\n

In America, that\u2019s reserved for children.<\/p>\n

Research by Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand at the University of Tennessee demonstrates a fetus can feel pain<\/a> by 20 weeks (other research <\/a>indicates pain can be felt as early as 5.5 weeks). From 13 weeks on, abortions often involve a technique known as dilation and evacuation (D&E). Dr. Anthony Levatino<\/a> has committed\u00a0over 1,200 abortions, and in the video below, he describes what a D&E consists of.<\/p>\n