{"id":168069,"date":"2017-06-25T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=168069"},"modified":"2017-06-26T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T17:13:06","slug":"planned-parenthoods-depictions-abortion-far-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthoods-depictions-abortion-far-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood’s depictions of abortion are far from reality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood<\/a> would like for you to think an abortion<\/a> is a routine medical operation. The organization, which commits more than 320,000 abortions per year, prefers to use terms that are as emotionally detached as possible, like “fetus” instead of “baby” and “the pregnancy” instead of “preborn child.”<\/p>\n

These aren’t efforts in accordance with a desire to be medically accurate. A recent Planned Parenthood video illustrates as much by depicting an abortion as nothing more than removing a tiny blue dot from a mother’s uterus. The Planned Parenthood video states, “During an in-clinic abortion, a doctor, a nurse, or other healthcare provider empties your uterus using gentle suction and sometimes other medical tools.”<\/p>\n

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This is medically inaccurate. Abortions are gruesome procedures. In a Live Action video that points out the Planned Parenthood video’s inaccuracies<\/a>, former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino \u2013 who himself committed over 1,200 abortions \u2013 detailed what actually happens during an abortion:<\/p>\n

The baby has a heartbeat, fingers, toes, arms, and legs, but its bones are still weak and fragile. The suction is then turned on, with a force ten to twenty times more powerful than your household vacuum cleaner. The baby is rapidly torn apart by the suction, and squeezed through this tubing down into the suction machine, followed by the placenta. The abortionist uses a curette to scrape the lining of the uterus. A curette is basically a long-handled, curved blade. Once the uterus is empty, the speculum is removed and the abortion is complete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watch the Live Action video below:<\/p>\n