{"id":293712,"date":"2023-06-28T06:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T11:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=293712"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:35:33","slug":"north-carolina-abortions-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/north-carolina-abortions-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina’s new law didn’t outlaw ‘health care.’ It outlawed this."},"content":{"rendered":"
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A North Carolina abortionist was recently featured in the News & Observer<\/a>, decrying the state’s new law that will protect preborn children from abortion after 12 weeks. The article, which calls Dr. Matthew Zerden’s work a “vital resource,” describes the new law as “onerous,” and uses the word “care” numerous times to describe the act of killing the preborn child.<\/p>\n

However, it fails to describe the reality of what the law actually <\/em>sets out to do: protect preborn human beings from a brutal, deadly procedure.<\/p>\n

The most common abortion procedure committed during the second trimester is the dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedure. This is a brutal process in which the preborn child is ripped apart limb by limb with a sopher clamp. Once the abortionist removes all the pieces, they are reassembled so that the abortionist can ensure nothing is missing. Former abortionist Dr. Kathi Aultman describes the process in the following video:<\/p>\n