{"id":263711,"date":"2022-03-03T18:35:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T00:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=263711"},"modified":"2022-03-02T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T23:09:16","slug":"abortion-pro-child-unwanted-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pro-child-unwanted-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion advocate claims to be pro-child while arguing for the ‘unwanted’ to die"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

In an argument claiming to be \u201cpro-child,\u201d law professor Laura Hermer attempted to settle on a principle that both pro-lifers and abortion supporters can agree on: the welfare of children. \u201cPro-life advocates presumably want viable pregnancies to yield babies who are loved and given the best start possible,\u201d she wrote in MinnPost<\/a>. But then Hermer added that abortion access is an equally vital part of ensuring the welfare of children and mothers \u2013 an echo of Planned Parenthood\u2019s notorious \u201cevery child a wanted child<\/a>\u201d argument.<\/p>\n

It is an idea that pro-lifers know to be deeply flawed.<\/p>\n

The crux of Hermer\u2019s argument is that women who are denied abortions are more likely to have children who suffer from neglect \u2014 because they are \u201cunwanted\u201d \u2014 and such women are also more likely to be impoverished as a result. Although she acknowledged there is a lack of data examining the effect of unintended pregnancy on mothers, Hermer cited heavily from the so-called \u201cTurnaway Study\u201d of 2020, which has been repeatedly\u00a0debunked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The study\u00a0is from UCSF, which National Right to Life has described<\/a> as being \u201cthe nation\u2019s abortion training academy,\u201d looked at women from 30 abortion facilities nationwide who were denied an abortion because they were too far along, denied an abortion but got one later, or who obtained a first-trimester abortion. The study claimed to show that 95% of the women who obtained abortions did not<\/em> regret their decision five years later \u2014\u00a0information intended to debunk the notion that women regret abortions. However, as critics of the study have shown, the conclusions are less reliable than they first appear.<\/p>\n

READ: No, children who would be born into poverty are not better off aborted<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n