{"id":312812,"date":"2024-05-28T14:46:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T19:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=312812"},"modified":"2024-05-28T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T18:23:32","slug":"babies-first-trimester-abortion-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/babies-first-trimester-abortion-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Preborn babies in the first trimester are humans, too. They deserve protection from abortion."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In recent comments, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Eric Hovde stated that while he supports the overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/em> and believes in the “beauty of life,” he also believes allowing abortion to remain legal in the first trimester is the most reasonable thing to do.<\/p>\n

“I believe in the beauty of life,” said<\/a>\u00a0Hovde. “I have two daughters, three grandchildren, but I also believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the health of the mother. And I think early on in a woman’s pregnancy, she should have a right to choose. If you look at most of Western Europe, they resolved this decades ago. I think Germany said 12 weeks, France at 14 weeks, almost all of Western Europe allows a woman the right to choose in the first trimester.”<\/p>\n

Like Hovde, most Americans<\/a> want abortion restricted significantly, while allowing it in the first trimester. But popular opinion in Europe or the United States “resolving” that it’s acceptable to kill smaller, weaker human beings up to a certain point doesn’t magically make those humans unworthy of life. Preborn children are living, growing human beings at all<\/em> stages of pregnancy from the moment of fertilization, and all human lives deserve to be protected, including preborn children in the first trimester.<\/p>\n