{"id":255908,"date":"2021-10-30T15:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T20:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=255908"},"modified":"2021-10-30T17:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T22:26:43","slug":"abortion-healthy-baby-third-trimester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-healthy-baby-third-trimester\/","title":{"rendered":"Former abortionist: Healthy woman chose to abort healthy baby at six months"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former abortionist Patti Giebink, who is now pro-life<\/a>,\u00a0wrote a memoir<\/a> about her time working at Planned Parenthood. In the memoir, Giebink describes an encounter with a woman having an ultrasound to date her pregnancy. The woman was visibly pregnant and it was a moment in which Giebink’s personal views on abortion conflicted with her job at Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought to myself, this is a baby, no doubt about it,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Her tone was flippant”<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The woman was 24 and a half weeks (more than six months) pregnant. Giebink informed her that she was too far along to have an abortion in South Dakota or any nearby state. Yet, the woman told Giebink that she already had an abortion scheduled in Kansas in two days. She said she would be able to have an abortion there if she was less than 25 weeks pregnant. Giebink had just told her she was. According to Giebink:<\/p>\n

Her tone was flippant for someone of her age and situation. If I had suspected she planned to cross state lines in her quest to terminate the pregnancy, I might have been tempted to tweak the numbers to make her 25 weeks. But it was too late.<\/em><\/p>\n

She was out the door with the paperwork, and I never saw her again. It was times like these when my personal views began to muddle and conflict with the establishment.<\/em><\/p>\n

Even Giebink, who was regularly committing abortions, found it difficult to accept a young woman being so casual about having a late-term abortion. At more than 24 weeks, the baby was old enough to survive<\/a> outside the womb. Babies born as young as 21 weeks have survived when given proper medical care. This child was completely healthy, and so was the mother. She simply didn\u2019t want the baby.<\/p>\n

Abortionist George Tiller, who was killed in a widely condemned shooting in 2009, committed late-term abortions at his facility in Kansas. This woman may have gone to him.<\/p>\n

The myth of late-term abortions for “health reasons”<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Pro-choicers claim late-term abortions are only committed in dire cases in which the woman\u2019s life is at risk, or the baby is severely disabled or dying. But late-term abortion is never necessary to save a woman\u2019s life<\/a>.\u00a0And this case was just one of many in which the baby and mother were physically healthy.<\/p>\n

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