{"id":316974,"date":"2024-08-12T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=316974"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:44:23","slug":"denials-cnn-media-late-abortion-infanticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/denials-cnn-media-late-abortion-infanticide\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite denials from CNN and other media, late abortion and infanticide is happening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The media continues to express skepticism that extremely late abortions and infanticide are occurring under certain circumstances in the United States.<\/p>\n

During a recent interview<\/a> between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and CNN’s Jake Tapper, Tapper confronted Abbott about a study which claimed to find an increase in infant mortality in Texas, directly related to the state’s pro-life laws. (Despite this line of questioning, that study has been debunked<\/a>.) Instead, Abbott drew attention to the extreme nature of supporting late abortions \u2014 and even infanticide.<\/p>\n

“Kamala Harris supports abortion until the very last second before a fully developed child in the mother’s womb is born,” Abbott claimed.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s late-term abortion. That baby can definitely feel the pain. That definitely, the baby who, if it survives one more minute \u2014.\u201d But Tapper immediately became argumentative, interrupting Abbott.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere are there abortions being carried out?\u201d Tapper interjected, while Abbott continued, \u201c\u2014 will be born, but instead will lose its life.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere? Where are these abortions being carried out up until the moment of birth?\u201d Tapper asked. \u201cI keep hearing Republican politicians talking about that. And, I mean, that\u2019s infanticide. I don\u2019t know where this is going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abbott claimed that in California (where Harris is from) it is the law to allow abortion without limits, as well as in Minnesota (where Harris’ running mate Tim Walz is governor). However, California’s law<\/a>, according to the Guttmacher Institute, does not allow abortion past “fetal viability, generally 24\u201326 weeks of pregnancy” \u2014\u00a0though ‘viability’ is highly subjective and determined by the abortionist who is paid to commit the abortion. Colleen McNicholas, a Planned Parenthood abortionist, admitted<\/a> that “my practice includes abortion care through the point of viability, and as we previously discussed, that could be at any point<\/strong>” (emphasis added). In addition, children born as early as 21 weeks<\/a> are capable of surviving when given medical assistance.<\/p>\n

Minnesota’s law, however, does allow abortion without limits<\/strong><\/em> \u2014 and it is one of nine states (plus D.C.)<\/a> in the U.S. that do (Alaska, Vermont, Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, Maryland, and New Jersey).<\/p>\n

While even HuffPost says<\/a> the claims about late abortion and infanticide are “horrifically false” \u2014 yet fails to explain how \u2014 it is unfortunately true<\/em> that late abortions, well past the point of viability, take place in the thousands annually, and there are facilities who openly advertise extremely late abortions for any reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n