{"id":231739,"date":"2020-10-02T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=231739"},"modified":"2020-10-01T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:12:28","slug":"racism-keisha-atkins-death-late-term-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/racism-keisha-atkins-death-late-term-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Did racism contribute to Keisha Atkins’ death from late-term abortion?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An abortionist from Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, recently revealed under oath the truth about the reasons used to justify the late-term abortion that killed 23-year-old Keisha Atkins<\/a> in 2017. When attorneys questioned Dr. Shannon Carr during a hearing for the investigation into Atkins’ death, Carr admitted that she made racist and discriminatory assumptions about Atkins’ life to determine Atkins’\u00a0“need” for an abortion.<\/p>\n

Carr, along with fellow abortionists Carmen Landau and Shelley Sella, signed a document obtained by Abortion on Trial<\/a> stating that Atkins needed an abortion at six months gestation for health reasons including her physical, family, and mental health. But when asked about this during the deposition, Carr admitted<\/a> she only speculated<\/strong> that carrying the baby to term would cause Atkins “irreversible” harm. By physical harm, she said, she meant the usual effects of pregnancy on a woman’s body. As for mental harm, Carr used discriminatory and racist beliefs as an excuse to abort Atkins’ viable baby.<\/p>\n

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