{"id":321040,"date":"2024-11-01T10:50:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T15:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=321040"},"modified":"2024-11-03T19:52:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T01:52:29","slug":"neonatologist-abortion-survivor-against-colorado-amendment-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/neonatologist-abortion-survivor-against-colorado-amendment-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Neonatologist who cared for abortion survivor speaks against Colorado Amendment 79"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An opinion piece<\/a> by a retired neonatologist recently published in The Denver Post<\/a> highlights some of the dangers of the extreme pro-abortion amendment the state’s voters will see on the ballot next week.<\/p>\n

In the piece, Dr. Elizabeth H. Thilo warns that Amendment 79<\/a> would allow abortion all the way up to birth, even though infants born in the late second and third trimesters are capable of surviving outside the womb \u2014 a dichotomy she invites readers to consider.<\/p>\n

“There is no question in my mind, or in the medical literature, that premature infants who are 23 weeks or 24 weeks gestation are individual human beings who feel pain, recognize the touch, voice, and smell of their mother, and have improved outcomes when their mother and father are able to be with them,” she writes.<\/p>\n