{"id":309484,"date":"2024-03-29T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=309484"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T21:01:59","slug":"senator-long-debunked-lie-late-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/senator-long-debunked-lie-late-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators continue to spread long-debunked lie about later abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a recent Senate Judiciary hearing<\/a> focused on abortion, Senator Dick Durbin spread a long-debunked falsehood about why women get late-term or later abortions.<\/p>\n

Senator Ted Cruz had noted that Durbin, along with Senator Peter Welch, are vocal supporters of abortion throughout all three trimesters of pregnancy. Each senator then tried to defend this support using lies and misinformation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Durbin repeated a familiar claim about why women undergo later, abortions which has become used frequently by the abortion industry to soften the idea of intentionally killing a preborn child who is able to survive outside of the womb.<\/p>\n

“What are the reasons for really late-term abortions? Well, there are three. And the information I\u2019m reading from comes from the Center for Disease Control,” he said. “Why women need access to abortion late in pregnancy: maternal health endangerment; diagnosis of severe fetal abnormality which didn\u2019t show up or develop until late in the pregnancy; restrictive state laws that made it difficult for a woman to get an abortion earlier in pregnancy. And we\u2019re talking about 1 percent of all abortions.”<\/p>\n

This is a familiar argument; it has been used<\/a> by abortion advocates for years<\/a>. Unfortunately, it’s blatantly false.<\/p>\n

According to a 1988 Guttmacher study<\/a>, only 2% of women sought late-term abortions because of a health problem with the baby. A 2013 study<\/a>, also published by the Guttmacher Institute, also said, \u201cdata suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.\u201d Pro-abortion researcher and (debunked<\/a>) Turnaway Study author Diana Greene Foster likewise stated that according to a report from the Congressional Research Service<\/a>, abortions for fetal abnormalities \u201cmake up a small minority of later abortion.\u201d And a 2010 paper<\/a> from Julia Steinberg of the pro-abortion Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health said, \u201cResearch suggests that the overwhelming majority of women having later abortions do so for reasons other than fetal anomaly (Drey et al., 2006; Finer et al., 2005, 2006; Foster et al., 2008).\u201d<\/p>\n