{"id":301718,"date":"2023-11-24T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T22:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=301718"},"modified":"2023-11-28T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:33:44","slug":"washington-post-abortion-propaganda-later-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-post-abortion-propaganda-later-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post spreads pro-abortion propaganda about later abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Propaganda is a strong weapon which banks upon the ignorance of the public. As the saying goes, \u2018he who controls the language controls the masses\u2019 \u2014 and nothing exemplifies this more than the collaboration which exists between Big Abortion and Big Media when they join ranks to mask the torturous act of abortion perpetrated against a living human baby in the womb.<\/p>\n

The most recent example of abortion propaganda comes from the Washington Post, which downplayed the heinous way abortion targets viable preborn children by claiming in their opening line: \u201cAbortions after 21 weeks are rare and usually the result of tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Media propagandists of abortion rarely require pro-abortion allies to explain why they do not limit abortion in the final days or weeks of pregnancy. Instead, they point to mutual opponents by crying foul anytime a pro-lifer claims abortion advocates are legalizing abortion “literally until the end of pregnancy,” as the Post put it.<\/p>\n

Yet the Washington Post’s own headline<\/a> dispels the myth that very late abortions don’t occur. Their headline reads, \u201cAbortion \u2018until the day of birth\u2019 is almost never a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Almost never” implies that it sometimes occurs \u2014 and these abortion propagandists are banking on readers failing to catch on.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post propaganda article claims Abortion up to Birth ‘almost’ never happens<\/p><\/div>\n

Abortion after 21 weeks \u201cvanishingly small\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the Washington Post’s propaganda piece claimed, \u201cMore than 93 percent\u00a0<\/b>are performed\u00a0at or before 13 weeks,<\/a>\u201d Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data reviewed by Guttmacher previously estimated<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthat between 6.3% and 7.4% of all U.S. abortions are obtained at or after 15 weeks of pregnancy.\u201d Based on Guttmacher\u2019s 2020 published abortion totals<\/a> of 930,160 abortions, that would mean that approximately 58.6K to 68.8K abortions are committed every year<\/strong> at or after 15 weeks, in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Abortion at or after the 21st week of pregnancy is\u00a0estimated<\/a> to be about 1% of all abortions, an amount downplayed by the Washington Post as a \u201cvanishingly small\u201d number according to the article.<\/p>\n

But is it?<\/p>\n

Before we crunch the numbers, which this abortion propaganda machine failed to do, it’s important to point out that there are no requirements<\/em> that abortions are reported, so we really do not know what the true numbers are.<\/p>\n

But, accepting the \u20181 percent\u2019 premise for now, this would mean that 9,301 babies were killed in one year by violent abortion at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy (using 2020 Guttmacher data) and 10,722 babies ruthlessly slaughtered at or after 21 weeks according to more recent #WeCount numbers<\/a> for June 2022-June 2023.<\/p>\n

Children\u00a0born prematurely<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a021 weeks<\/a>\u00a0are\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0to have\u00a0survived<\/a>\u00a0with medical assistance.<\/p>\n

Suggesting that the number of preborn babies killed at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy every year is a \u201cvanishingly small\u201d number would be like downplaying the 10,000 Americans who died<\/a> in drunk-driving car crashes in 2019, thus dismissing the deluge of public messages about the dangers of drinking and driving.<\/p>\n

Taking the Word of Abortion Profiteers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rather than advocate for the 10,000 preborn babies targeted by the brutal act of abortion, the Washington Post regurgitated the claims of abortion advocates, who clearly benefit from the media\u2019s willing PR machine.<\/p>\n

This strategy proved disastrous in the past when the debate over so-called partial birth abortion was raging. Then, the media simply believed the lie that these gruesome procedures only took place in small numbers when the health of the woman or baby were at risk. When the truth was revealed, the media had egg on their faces. Read about the lies exposed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In their latest article, the Washington Post cited Katrina Kimport, described as \u201ca medical sociologist and professor at the University of California at San Francisco [UCSF]\u201d and \u201cone of the nation\u2019s top experts on abortions later in pregnancy<\/a>.\u201d UCSF just happens to be home to a large abortion training program<\/a>, but why get into the weeds when you have an ‘expert’ with deep ties to Big Abortion to cite?<\/p>\n

Kimport\u2019s \u201cexpertise\u201d is based on her having \u201ccarried out in-depth formal interviews<\/a> with more than 50 women who terminated pregnancies after 24 weeks (roughly the time a fetus is viable outside the womb),\u201d the Washington Post wrote, adding that she\u2019s \u201cspoken with at least 20 more informally\u201d the paper alleged.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s stop for a moment and do the math here.<\/p>\n

By the industry\u2019s own admission, there are at least 9-10,000 abortions at or after 21 weeks every year, and no national reporting detailing just how many of those are committed at or after 24 weeks \u2014 because the abortion industry fights against any sort of required abortion reporting.<\/p>\n

Yet somehow Kimport was able to gain access to 50 of those women. Do those 50 represent all abortions committed at 24 weeks? Doubtful. Does it represent half, a third, or maybe \u201cless than 1 percent\u201d of those procedures? We do not know, because the media outlet failed to ask. But remember, the gist of the article was to disprove<\/em> that abortion takes place \u201cuntil the day of birth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, Kimport\u2019s report acknowledged that \u201cAt the time of their abortion, participants\u2019 pregnancy duration ranged from 24 weeks to 35 weeks LMP.\u201d\u00a0 Thirty-five weeks is extremely late \u2014 perhaps not the literal \u201cday of birth,\u201d but just a handful of weeks from it. This is something the abortion industry and their media allies gloss over. Instead, the abortion PR machine wants America to believe it is \u201crare\u201d that, at a time when a baby can survive outside the womb, profiteers opt to brutally kill that child rather than induce birth to give that child a chance to survive.<\/p>\n

And Kimport\u2019s interviews confirm claims by pro-lifers that abortion in the third trimester can be committed for reasons of \u201cpersonal choice,\u201d something acknowledged<\/a>\u00a0by those who\u00a0commit,<\/a>\u00a0profit from<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0train<\/a> others to commit abortions.<\/p>\n

Kimport writes, \u201cThe new information respondents received that led to their decision to obtain an abortion was not exclusively related to fetal health. For some respondents, the new information they obtained was that they were pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimport detailed those cases:<\/p>\n