{"id":253164,"date":"2021-09-15T08:34:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T13:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253164"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:43:45","slug":"harris-welcomes-abortionists-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/harris-welcomes-abortionists-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris set to welcome abortionists to White House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vice President Kamala Harris’s unwavering support for abortion continues<\/a> as she plans to welcome abortionists from Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky, and New Mexico to the White House on September 16. The reason for the meeting is the Texas Heartbeat Act<\/a>, which went into effect on September 1 and restricts abortion to before an embryonic heartbeat can be detected.<\/p>\n

“We will not stand by and allow our nation to go back to the days of back-alley abortions,” Harris said in a statement<\/a>. “We will not abide by cash incentives for virtual vigilantes and intimidation for patients. We will use every level of our administration to defend the right to safe and legal abortion \u2014 and to strengthen that right.”<\/p>\n

One of the abortionists who will meet with Harris on Thursday is Planned Parenthood employee Bhavik Kumar, who like his\u00a0fellow abortionists<\/a>, rushed as many women as possible through abortions on August 31, 2021, as the clock ticked down to the enactment of the Heartbeat Act at midnight. According to Glamour<\/a>, at 7 o’clock that evening, Kumar still had 20 to 30 women waiting for abortions and he was able to get to all of them. At least, that’s four abortions an hour or one abortion every 15 minutes. But at 30 women over five hours, Kumar was committing an abortion every 10 minutes. Glamour said he committed 60 abortions in all that day — the most of his career — as if this was a heroic move. Rather, it was a dangerous, selfish move that put women’s lives and health at risk, but likely brought him a large financial gain.<\/p>\n

Kumar told Glamour<\/a>, “We need bold action to protect access to abortion. There’s no time to wait. People’s lives are literally at stake here.”<\/p>\n

An interesting statement coming from someone who dehumanizes and ends the lives of the weakest human beings for profit. In addition to this, both Harris’s and Kumar’s claims are misleading.<\/p>\n

Thousands of women didn’t die before Roe<\/strong><\/p>\n

An oft-repeated claim is that one million illegal abortions had occurred and 10,000 women had died from back-alley abortions prior to Roe v. Wade<\/em>, along with the prediction that thousands more will die if abortion is restricted in any way. However, this narrative is completely untrue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former abortionist Bernard Nathanson eventually became pro-life, years after he helped to launch legal abortion in the United States. He later revealed that the number of women who died from illegal abortions was hugely inflated in order to convince Americans that abortion needed to be legalized for safety reasons. While every death from abortion is tragic, the actual number of women who had died leading up to Roe v. Wade<\/em> was about 300<\/em> \u2014 not 10,000. But between 1930 and 1970, the number of women who died each year was declining due to treatments like antibiotics. In 1972, just 39 women died from illegal abortions.<\/p>\n

As admitted<\/a> by former Planned Parenthood medical director Mary Calderone, the same doctors who were committing “back-alley” abortions in the 1960s and early 1970s were the same ones who committed legal abortions after Roe v. Wade<\/em>. The difference was that after Roe<\/em>, they could freely advertise their “services.”<\/p>\n

READ:<\/strong>\u00a0Suddenly, illegal abortion can be \u2018safe,\u2019 according to abortion advocates<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, abortionists send women to finish later-term abortions at home or in hotel rooms alone, where they sometimes\u00a0deliver<\/a> their third-trimester stillborn babies alone on a toilet. In addition, abortionists have recently\u00a0pushed<\/a> for at-home DIY abortions using the abortion pill without even examining women first to check for gestational age, ectopic pregnancy, or other health issues that put them at high risk for abortion pill related complications.<\/p>\n

Women are still dying from abortion \u2014 only now it’s legal. Yet the truth about how many women are injured or dying each year may never be truly known because only about half of all states<\/a> report abortion complications. However, we do know of some women’s tragic stories<\/a>, including 23-year-old Keisha Atkins and 29-year-old Jennifer Morbelli, who both died from legal abortions.<\/p>\n

Legalizing and expanding abortion has never been about making abortion safe.<\/p>\n