{"id":319665,"date":"2024-10-02T16:46:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=319665"},"modified":"2024-11-13T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T00:40:12","slug":"warren-hern-media-late-term-inaccurate-inconsistent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/warren-hern-media-late-term-inaccurate-inconsistent\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrageous abortionist Warren Hern thinks lethally injecting a child in utero is not an abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the few abortionists in the country willing to commit late-term abortions, Warren Hern has been featured often in the media, especially in recent months. Yet instead of being portrayed as a man who brutally and violently ends the lives of preborn children (and who has a sneering disdain for humanity), he is portrayed as a compassionate hippie liberal \u2014 a pioneering doctor and a lover of nature. The latest piece promoting Hern, however, takes an interesting turn; in it, he makes claims about late-term abortions \u2014 claims which contradict his own previous statements<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the New Yorker<\/a>, Hern spoke to Jia Tolentino about the gruesome work he does. Tolentino asked:<\/p>\n

I want to talk about what late abortion is and is not. The anti-abortion movement has created a false image: as if late abortions involve the death of a nearly full-term baby, the size and age and shape of a newborn. Even the phrase ‘late-term abortion’ implies this. For the sake of clarity, do abortions ever take place close to or at full term?<\/em><\/p>\n

Notice the setup here. Tolentino claimed pro-lifers “created a false image,” being that “late abortions involve” a baby “the size and age and shape of a newborn.”<\/p>\n

In reality, while this may be at times what is presented in political rhetoric, pro-life groups have always reported on the fact that late or late-term abortions may sometimes refer to<\/a> abortions past the first trimester (14 weeks or later), but more commonly refer to 21 weeks or later<\/em>, in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Babies have survived when born prematurely at 21 weeks gestation. Though they are not the size or age of full-term newborns, they are most definitely distinctly human beings. Here is what babies born at 21 weeks<\/strong> look like:<\/p>\n

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Screenshot: Richard Hutchinson at 21 weeks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Baby Madalyn, born at 21 weeks, who died two hours after birth<\/p><\/div>\n

Hern answered “no” when asked, “Do abortions ever take place close to or at full term?” And in the next breath, he talked about how he aborted a child at “over 35 weeks” by lethal injection<\/em>:<\/p>\n

There are situations where, in a desired pregnancy, a catastrophic event occurs in the middle of the third trimester. For example, a woman came to me and she was over thirty-five weeks<\/strong>. Her doctor sent her to me because the fetus had a stroke that destroyed the brain. The fetus was not going to be able to survive, and if it did it would not have a life<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

She was terribly grieved about this. She came to me. I did the injection [that stops the heart of the fetus in utero]. Her fetus was delivered in her hospital with her doctor and her husband present. Do you want to call that an abortion? I don\u2019t call that an abortion. It was an interruption of a pregnancy that was hopelessly complicated<\/strong>. There was no point in forcing her to carry for another month, and then have a dead baby. That is cruel. It may have been necessary two hundred years ago, but it is not necessary now.<\/em><\/p>\n

So Hern intentionally killed the child in utero, and the child died, and then labor was induced later at a hospital. Though Hern may not personally wish to call this an “abortion,” this procedure is actually known as an induction abortion<\/em>. The reason it is an abortion is that the goal was to intentionally, unnaturally, end the life of a child (by lethal injection, no less). You can see the process in the video below:<\/p>\n