{"id":172757,"date":"2017-10-08T10:56:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=172757"},"modified":"2017-10-09T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T21:40:26","slug":"sorry-cosmo-abortion-name-still-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sorry-cosmo-abortion-name-still-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Cosmo: An abortion by any other name is still killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A late-term abortion<\/a> by any other name is still a violent act that destroys a human being.<\/p>\n

But to staunch abortion advocates, killing some humans is fine as long as we are “medically accurate” in the way we refer to it. An\u00a0article by Robin Marty in Cosmopolitan<\/a> condemns the phrase “late-term abortion” and insists we all stop using it:<\/p>\n

But in reality, no one should be using it. There is no specific medical definition for a \u201clate-term abortion,\u201d and because of that, abortion opponents are using it to mean anything they want.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marty\u2019s argument that there’s no specific medical definition renders the phrase void in her view; she then cites the pro-abortion American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) whose Executive Vice President and CEO of ACOG, Hal Lawrence, M.D, says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Though many media reports and other literature use the phrase \u2018late-term abortion,\u2019 it is not accurate and should not be used. A full-term pregnancy is defined as a pregnancy with a gestational age between 39 weeks and 40 weeks, 6 days. “Late term” refers to a pregnancy with a gestational age of 41 weeks to 41 weeks, 6 days. Abortions are not performed at “late term.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That reasoning is illogical; the later part of anything is loosely defined as being in the last 50 percent. A late-term pregnancy is generally considered to be in the third trimester. Even the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute discusses<\/a> the laws on “later term abortions,” pointing out that late-term abortions are generally those committed “post-viability.” While Guttmacher and other abortion advocates disagree on when viability occurs, the fact remains that late (or later) term abortion is one that is done after a certain point in pregnancy.<\/p>\n

READ: Correcting the media’s false narrative on late-term abortion is a must<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Marty\u2019s argument seems founded on ACOG\u2019s Lawrence and his comments, especially when he adds<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Clinicians sometimes use the term “early abortion” to refer to abortions that occur up to 70 days gestational age, when medication abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol are highly effective. The term “later abortion” is sometimes used to describe abortions that occur after 12 weeks gestational age. Describing these abortions as “late-term” is simply inaccurate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marty adds that the \u201cmedically inaccurate terminology has already become ingrained in the rhetoric\u201d of pro-lifers, as if somehow a preborn human isn’t being violently killed if a “medically accurate” phrase is used. Perhaps Marty is attempting to paint pro-lifers as “medically inaccurate,” which she hopes will therefore lead people to doubt the scientific facts about fetal development<\/a>, and about other claims made by pro-lifers.\u00a0After all, if “late-term” abortion isn’t really a “thing,” then no human beings are killed in the late stages of pregnancy… right?<\/p>\n

Wrong. While pro-abortion doctors and those who profit from abortion may choose to gloss over the death of innocent children, Dr. Anthony Levatino, an OB\/GYN and former abortionist (who, therefore, knows quite a bit about the stages a baby is developed when being killed), confirms that late-term abortion is a reality. Levatino explains in this video animation what happens in a third trimester abortion of a viable human being:<\/p>\n