{"id":293922,"date":"2023-06-29T18:41:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T23:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=293922"},"modified":"2023-06-30T08:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T13:59:12","slug":"maine-lawmaker-jawdropping-abortionists-standards-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/maine-lawmaker-jawdropping-abortionists-standards-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine lawmaker makes jawdropping claim about abortionists’ ‘standards of care’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maine is poised to enact a law (LD 1619<\/a>) that will expand abortion in the state, making it legal through birth for any reason. Despite the loophole in the bill which allows abortionists to determine if an abortion is necessary even into the third trimester, the bill’s proponents \u2014 and more specifically, Rep. Lois Reckitt \u2014\u00a0claim that no abortionist would ever carry out an abortion that far into a pregnancy unless there was a significant medical reason.<\/p>\n

This simply isn’t true.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt basically allows for the abortion of a baby in the third trimester for any reason whatsoever, with no guardrails except for a physician has to sign off that it\u2019s necessary. Necessary for what purpose? They never really explain,\u201d Senator Eric Brakey said of the bill.<\/p>\n

Senator Lois Reckitt argued back, \u201cThat\u2019s not true. I mean, what doctor are you ever going to find that would do that? Standards of care in the medical profession would never allow that to happen. I want to trust the medical profession, and the women whose lives are at stake in this discussion, to do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet history shows that abortionists do not “do the right thing” when it comes to protecting preborn children from abortion. One such abortionist<\/a> \u2014 Dr. Shannon Carr \u2014 is actively advocating for the extreme law Maine is about to enact, telling the Maine State House Judiciary Committee that “later abortions” are “life-saving health care.” Yet, she has admitted that her assessment of medical necessity for a second-trimester abortion was based on “speculation.”<\/p>\n

Carr is one of the abortionists involved in the 24-week abortion that killed Keisha Atkins in 2017. The second-trimester abortion was carried out on a baby who was old enough to survive outside the womb, yet Carr claimed on paperwork that the abortion was “necessary.”<\/p>\n

However, during testimony in a 2019 deposition concerning Atkins’ death, Carr struggled<\/a> to explain why<\/strong> she deemed the abortion to be medically necessary.<\/p>\n