{"id":197411,"date":"2019-02-27T06:46:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197411"},"modified":"2019-02-26T23:31:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T05:31:18","slug":"writer-claims-no-abortion-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/writer-claims-no-abortion-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreal: Pro-abortion writer claims ‘no such thing as an abortion survivor’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a show of either outright delusion or of sheer ignorance, writer Annalisa Merelli claimed<\/a> that the anti-infanticide bill the United States Senate failed to pass was unnecessary because, in her words, \u201cThere is no such thing as an \u2018abortion survivor.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This is patently false. Abortionists\u2019 own words<\/a> demonstrate that babies are sometimes born alive during attempted abortions. And these instances are not as rare as people might think. Former labor and delivery nurse Jill Stanek exposed the horrific practice of \u201clive birth abortion<\/a>,\u201d which is the practice of leaving an infant without medical care to die after she is born alive, sometimes lingering for hours.<\/p>\n

Merelli insists, \u201cAn abortion is performed with the intention of ending a pregnancy, so there are no survivors.\u201d Birth is the end of a pregnancy; abortion is the killing of a preborn child in the womb. If the abortionist fails to kill the child before removing the baby\u2019s body from her mother, a living baby is born.<\/p>\n

While every successful <\/em>abortion results in a dead baby, not every one that is attempted does.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Abortionists reveal why we need a law to protect abortion survivors<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Even Merelli has to acknowledge this stating that in a late-term abortion, which is not as rare as she suggests<\/a>, \u201cit can lead to the fetus leaving the body alive, albeit in a terminal state.\u201d If Merelli is claiming that babies born alive from botched abortions would have died anyway due to fetal abnormalities, this, too, is false. Most women<\/a> who have later abortions do so for reasons other than fetal abnormalities. However, depending on how barbarically you define \u201cterminal,\u201d Merelli could be partially correct: If a helpless infant is left without assistance, she will die<\/em>. This is by no means the conventional understanding of terminal. Not every child who survives an attempted abortion will die if given appropriate medical care.<\/p>\n

Examples of abortion survivors<\/a> grown to adulthood and now advocating for other survivors show that some babies do, in fact, fully survive attempted abortions. While their stories are dismissed as \u201cfairy tales<\/a>\u201d by pro-abortion politicians, their lives should cause all abortion supporters to question what happens to the babies born in a procedure that was supposed to kill them before birth.<\/p>\n