{"id":210999,"date":"2019-09-25T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=210999"},"modified":"2019-09-25T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:19:54","slug":"acog-pregnancy-book-delivery-abortion-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/acog-pregnancy-book-delivery-abortion-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"ACOG pregnancy book suggests early delivery – not abortion – for pregnancy complications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contrary to popular belief, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) is not an unbiased source<\/a> regarding abortion. The group actually promotes abortion and opposes pro-life legislation. So when Facebook’s “fact checker”<\/a> — the \u201cInternational Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)<\/a>,\u201d a unit of the\u00a0Poynter Institute<\/a>, selected Health Feedback to “fact check” the claim that abortion is never medically necessary — using two abortionists<\/em><\/a> — it was surprising that the supposedly<\/a> “non-partisan”<\/a> and “fair”<\/a>\u00a0fact checker\u00a0would choose to update<\/a> its post not with balanced information but with a “clarification” from the pro-abortion ACOG on September 3, 2019<\/a> — days after the original August 30th fact check. Health Feedback has revised<\/a> its fact check\u00a0multiple times<\/a>, adding (and in some cases, removing) statements:<\/p>\n

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Health Feedback fact check ACOG update<\/p>\n

Oddly, when ACOG is addressing pregnancy in general and not promoting abortion, its communications sound strangely similar to the claims of Live Action and Lila Rose. Rose<\/a> “made clear that preterm delivery is different than abortion” in a fact-checked Young America\u2019s Foundation\u00a0video<\/a>, saying:<\/p>\n

“\u2026 [A]bortion \u2013 which is defined as \u2013 the direct and intentional killing of an embryo \u2013 a fetus \u2013 a baby in the womb \u2013 is not a medical treatment. And, what I mean to say then is when you are treating a mother who has a high risk pregnancy \u2013 who has complications \u2013 going in there to directly kill that child is not going to in any way solve her problem, help her heal, be a treatment for what she\u2019s experiencing.<\/i><\/p>\n

Now, you could perhaps do an early delivery if she\u2019s experiencing preeclampsia or if she has a very severe condition that you need to deliver that baby early. But, in that situation you don\u2019t go in there with a needle or forceps to destroy that baby before birth. You give that baby a fighting chance. And that is not abortion.\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n