{"id":317792,"date":"2024-09-01T09:06:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=317792"},"modified":"2024-10-23T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T20:48:03","slug":"top-myths-debunked-abortion-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/top-myths-debunked-abortion-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Myths DEBUNKED: Abortion survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion is meant to end the life of a preborn child in every single procedure \u2014 but occasionally, it fails. When this happens, the preborn child survives \u2014\u00a0something referred to in the abortion industry as the “dreaded complication<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Though this is a known complication from attempted abortions, there are numerous myths frequently perpetrated by the abortion industry and its supporters. But what is the reality?<\/p>\n

Myth #1: Abortion survivors are not real.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Truth:<\/em><\/strong> Preborn babies do survive abortions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Abortionists like Daniel Grossman<\/a> and pro-abortion researchers like Andr\u00e9a Becker (who works with Grossman at the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health) have claimed that abortion survivors are not real, and the idea of babies surviving abortions is a “misinformation campaign” or an “imagined situation” created by the pro-life movement to discredit the abortion industry. Ron DeSantis was widely mocked<\/a> for sharing the story of an abortion survivor named Penny, though the story was real \u2014 and Penny ultimately came forward to affirm his story. Even then, numerous media outlets still argued that Penny wasn’t telling the truth.<\/p>\n

But the truth is, babies do survive abortions. This has happened for as long as abortions have been committed, and it continues to happen today.<\/p>\n

In Florida, for example, there were 16 abortion survivors recorded between 2015 and 2018<\/a> alone. In another report<\/a>, 10 babies were recorded as having been born alive in 2015 in just three states: Florida, Minnesota, and Michigan. More recently in Minnesota<\/a>, five children were recorded as having been born alive in 2021. Data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) also revealed<\/a> that over 100 infants survived abortions, at least for a short time, over the course of 12 years. Another report<\/a> revealed that 100 babies were born alive following abortions in just five states, over the course of about 10 years.<\/p>\n

Surviving an abortion may be a rare occurrence, but it does happen, and likely more often than people believe it does. It happens enough that a support organization<\/a> has been formed for them.<\/p>\n

As Live Action News reported<\/a> in 2023, “Only a handful of states require cases of abortion survivors to be documented, and Live Action News found 220 cases of abortion survivors reported from 1999-2023 in just eight states. Because of a lack of consistent reporting, that number is almost certainly substantially higher.”<\/p>\n