{"id":248045,"date":"2021-06-29T06:34:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T11:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=248045"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:54:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:54:35","slug":"abortion-parenting-site-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-parenting-site-misleading\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting site’s article about ‘science’ behind abortion is dangerously misleading"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recent feature on the parenting site Fatherly<\/a> offered dangerously misleading information about abortion procedures. The article, entitled \u201cThe Science Behind Common Abortion Techniques,\u201d noticeably ignored scientific facts, and presented a biased account masquerading as objective research.<\/p>\n

Euphemisms and Abortion Procedures<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article opens by suggesting abortion \u201cdoesn\u2019t have to be shrouded in mystery,” and describes abortion first and foremost as a \u201cfamily planning tool.\u201d Citing statistics from the Guttmacher Institute that most mothers who undergo abortions already have other children, the Fatherly article states, \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s important for parents to know their options in case they do end up with a pregnancy they don\u2019t want to or can\u2019t carry to term.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s little wonder that abortion, the deliberate destruction of a living child in the womb, remains for many people \u201cshrouded in mystery.\u201d Abortion activists have made it hard to understand by describing it as \u201cfamily planning,\u201d \u201cwomen\u2019s empowerment,\u201d and \u201cchoice\u201d \u2014 all euphemisms which keep the procedure itself vague. According to scientific fact, life begins at fertilization<\/a>, and therefore, abortion ends a human life. It typically does so by starvation, suction, dismemberment, or lethal injection.<\/p>\n

Fatherly continues by explaining a handful of procedures with serious inaccuracy. Describing an aspiration abortion<\/a>, the author writes that a nurse or doctor \u201cgently sucks out the pregnancy tissue with a small hand-held device or machine.\u201d In reality<\/a>, an abortionist will \u201cvacuum the baby out in pieces with a force 10-20 times that of a household vacuum,\u201d according to former abortionist Anthony Levatino. Far from doing this \u201cgently,\u201d the experience has been described as \u201ctraumatizing\u201d by mothers. Aspiration abortions near the end of the first trimester take place when preborn children can likely feel pain<\/a>:<\/p>\n