{"id":230529,"date":"2020-09-10T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=230529"},"modified":"2024-12-11T13:45:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:45:03","slug":"abortionist-briefly-spoke-late-term-keisha-atkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-briefly-spoke-late-term-keisha-atkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist only briefly spoke to Keisha Atkins before committing abortion that killed her"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-choice advocates have claimed for years that late-term abortions<\/a> are only done for health reasons, but a recent video from Abortion On Trial<\/a> has once again refuted this common myth. The video features Southwestern Women’s Options abortionist Shannon Carr during a 2019 deposition concerning the wrongful death of her patient, Keisha Atkins. During her testimony, Carr struggled to explain why it was medically necessary for Atkins to undergo an abortion at six months gestation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Carr claimed in a medical document that Atkins needed the abortion to prevent \u201csubstantial and irreversible harm to her physical health, her mental health, her family health, her safety and well being.\u201d But Carr spoke to Atkins for only 20 minutes before making this assessment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When the attorneys present at the deposition questioned Carr about the diagnosis, the abortionist admitted the pregnancy posed no \u201cirreversible physical harm\u201d to Atkins\u2019s health. Instead, Carr made assertions about the state of Atkins\u2019s mental health to try and provide a medical justification for a late-term abortion. Carr\u2019s answers, however, were nothing more than mere guesses about Atkins\u2019s frame of mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n