{"id":208533,"date":"2019-08-17T08:49:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=208533"},"modified":"2019-08-16T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:52:15","slug":"media-women-fear-illegal-abortion-deaths-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-women-fear-illegal-abortion-deaths-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Media tells women to fear illegal abortion, ignores legal abortion deaths and injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, the Detroit Free Press ran a story under the headline,\u00a0‘We should be terrified’: What Michigan women should know if abortion becomes illegal<\/a>. The article is an example of one of the most common fear-mongering strategies among abortion activists. For decades, they have claimed that abortion must <\/em>remain legal, because if it is illegal, women will be \u201cforced\u201d to go to dangerous back-alley abortionists. Despite the strong emotional resonance of this argument for many people, it\u2019s simply not true<\/a>.\u00a0This argument ignores the fact that the legal abortion industry has preyed on women<\/a> and displayed the same abusive and damaging patterns of behavior as back-alley, illegal abortion operations. Additionally, the argument assumes that women experiencing unplanned pregnancies need elective abortion and will seek it even if it is illegal.<\/p>\n

In the recent article in the Detroit Free Press, the author interviewed abortion facility owner and activist Renee Chelian who describes her own horrific abortion at the age of 15 before abortion was legal in Michigan. Chelian was traumatized by the experience of undergoing an abortion at the direction of her parents. Because Chelian was in the second trimester, she was given drugs and interventions to induce labor and was sent home to deliver her baby.<\/p>\n

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Chelian claims that after the legalization of abortion, she started abortion facilities to prevent other young girls and women from suffering the trauma that she endured. She said<\/a> she wanted an abortion center to be \u201ca place that\u00a0would be spotless and where people would be treated with respect and dignity. And patients would just never feel like I felt.” But is this what happens?<\/p>\n

In legal abortion procedures today, including medication abortions<\/a> early in pregnancy and days\u2019-long late-term abortions<\/a>, mothers are routinely sent home with the possibility of delivering their deceased babies alone, without assistance, and without warning about what they will experience and the trauma that can result.<\/p>\n