{"id":203950,"date":"2019-06-09T12:54:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T17:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=203950"},"modified":"2019-06-07T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T20:25:23","slug":"video-shatters-media-lies-late-term-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/video-shatters-media-lies-late-term-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: New video shatters media’s lies about late-term abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some states have begun to advance radical abortion-till-birth legislation, and the press and politicians have played recklessly with the topic, perhaps allowing citizens to become desensitized to practices as cruel and unnecessary as late-term abortion. Live Action News readers might recall a guest column<\/a> a few months ago by James Agresti of Just Facts, wherein he addressed common myths about late-term abortion after the office of Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA) released an inaccurate statement, claiming that “no woman seeks a third trimester abortion except in the case\u00a0of tragic or difficult circumstances, such as a nonviable pregnancy or in the event of severe fetal abnormalities.” But abortion providers themselves dispute this idea. Yet, the media persists in pushing this narrative. As Agresti wrote:<\/p>\n

Before partial-birth abortions were banned by federal law<\/a> in 2003, it was a preferred method for committing late-term abortions. Dr. Martin Haskell, who is credited with inventing this procedure, stated in a 1993 interview with American Medical News:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll be quite frank: most of my abortions are elective in that 20\u201324 week range\u2026.In my particular case, probably 20% are for genetic reasons. And the other 80% are purely elective\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

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…Despite the federal law prohibiting partial-birth abortions for the past 16 years, a 2013 Guttmacher paper estimated that \u201cmore than 15,000\u201d abortions \u201cafter 20 weeks\u201d are still done every year…<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Why women have late-term abortions, according to the abortion industry<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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My husband and I collaborated with Agresti to produce Late-Term Abortion Facts and Falsehoods<\/em><\/a>, a short video that illustrates the reality of late-term abortion and the egregious falsehoods about it that circulate in light of legislation in various states that would allow abortion at any stage of pregnancy. Watch below:<\/p>\n