{"id":313047,"date":"2024-05-31T14:47:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=313047"},"modified":"2024-05-31T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:55:30","slug":"politician-pre-roe-law-stillborn-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/politician-pre-roe-law-stillborn-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Politician claims pre-Roe law forced his mother to carry stillborn baby for months"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Mannion, a New York state senator, is currently running for congressional office. And in a new campaign ad, he made an incredible claim about his mother allegedly being forced to carry a stillborn baby for two months prior to Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the ad, titled “Mother,” Mannion spoke about a tragic stillbirth his mother experienced in the 1960s. \u201cBefore she passed away, my mother shared her most painful memory,\u201d Mannion said in the ad. \u201cSee, before I was born, she lost her pregnancy at seven months. That was before Roe v. Wade<\/em>. So, she was forced to carry the fetus for another two months and deliver a stillborn baby. It was torture. And now MAGA Republicans are trying to take us back to that. That\u2019s why I helped pass some of the strongest abortion protections in the nation and I\u2019ll do the same in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

No law in the country disallows the treatment of miscarriage or delivery of a stillborn (deceased) baby. An induced abortion (which is what pro-life laws restrict) intentionally kills<\/em> a human being in the womb; a miscarriage or stillbirth is the accidental and unintentional death<\/em> of a child in the womb.<\/p>\n

Mannion further spoke to syracuse.com<\/a> about it, saying his mother suffered three miscarriages before he was born, but that the stillbirth at seven months was the most painful. \u201cShe was upset about it, and I know it had an impact on her. It was kind of surprising to me that she would talk about her miscarriage and having to carry the fetus around for two months,” he said. \u201cShe was not allowed to deliver. And the impact of spending two months carrying around a dead fetus had to be awful. She said she suffered.\u201d<\/p>\n