{"id":238664,"date":"2021-01-29T13:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=238664"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:37:58","slug":"abortion-never-solution-pregnancy-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-never-solution-pregnancy-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion is never the solution to complications during pregnancy. Here’s why."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2019, Facebook slapped Live Action with a “false news” label when founder Lila Rose stated in a video that abortion is never medically necessary. Using two abortionists, Facebook published a fact-check<\/a> claiming abortion can be necessary if a woman has serious complications or health risks. Yet while it is true that things can go wrong during pregnancy, an abortion \u2014 which deliberately targets a child for death \u2014 is never<\/em> needed.<\/p>\n

‘A skilled physician can save both lives’<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the biased “fact check,” abortionists Daniel Grossman and Robyn Schickler gave examples of complications which they claimed would necessitate an abortion, such as placenta previa, ruptured membranes, pre-eclampsia, and even hyperemesis gravidarum. Yet thousands of doctors disagreed<\/a>, including Dr. Ingrid Skop, an American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) Fellow, and an active member of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG). Skop has delivered over 5,000 babies, and serves on the boards of Healthy Futures of Texas and Any Woman Can. In a statement to Live Action News in 2019, Skop pointed out that the issues the two abortionists cited are often treatable, are not immediately life-threatening for the mother, and do not require an abortion.<\/p>\n

“Abortion for hyperemesis is a travesty,” Dr. Skop said. “With modern medicine, no woman should ever die from that problem. I still can\u2019t understand why they are willing to recommend abortion for placenta previa. Intentionally placing a surgical instrument through a placenta gives me chills!… [A] skilled physician can save both lives with standard obstetric techniques.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Former abortionist: Abortion is never medically necessary to save the life of the mother<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She added, “While we do see early severe preeclampsia\/HELLP on occasion, I have never seen it at such an early gestational age that the fetus does not at least have a chance at survival,” adding that the abortionists had “intentionally misrepresented the age of viability \u2014 they called it 24 weeks, but neonatologists call it 22 weeks.”<\/p>\n

The only scenario, she said, in which the baby might die “is the previable premature rupture of membranes resulting in sepsis… The uterus does need to be evacuated, and we do this by inducing labor, not by D&E<\/em>.” (emphasis added) She added, “Additionally, because these women are sick, they need IV antibiotics and to be cared for in a hospital, where ICU and other interventions for sepsis are immediately available. Referring them to an abortion clinic, where most D&Es are performed, would subject them to a lower standard of care, and unnecessarily threaten the woman\u2019s health.”<\/p>\n