{"id":323011,"date":"2024-12-14T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=323011"},"modified":"2024-12-13T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:44:02","slug":"time-reality-abortion-after-viability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/time-reality-abortion-after-viability\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite what ‘Time’ claims, this is what it really means to get an abortion after ‘fetal viability’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The media is continuing its efforts to change the narrative surrounding abortion after viability, trying to make it appear as if these induced abortions are normal and necessary health care procedures. In reality, they are violent acts that intentionally kill a preborn child who is capable of surviving outside of the womb.<\/p>\n

Time magazine recently published an article<\/a> claiming to show “what it really means to get an abortion after \u2018fetal viability.'” Though premature babies have survived as early as 21 weeks<\/a>, the age of viability is widely considered to begin at 24 weeks gestation. However, abortionists have stated that “viability” is a subjective concept<\/a> that is not simply based on a child’s gestational age, and can be arbitrarily decided based on numerous other factors.<\/p>\n

Time led readers to believe that late abortions largely take place due to medical necessity, or because the preborn child has been diagnosed with a disability \u2014 an idea that research has, for decades, failed to prove. Yet it let slip that the real<\/em> motive in promoting abortion after viability is to remove all<\/strong> restrictions on killing preborn human beings.<\/p>\n

Abortion at any time for any reason<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at the data of who is seeking abortion later in pregnancy, the vast majority of these cases are because of those exceptions,\u201d Dr. Maya Bass, a family physician, abortionist, and co-chair of the Committee to Protect Health Care\u2019s Reproductive Freedom Taskforce, told Time. \u201cBut I will say that anytime you have an exception, that\u2019s an extra barrier that a patient has to prove that they are the exception to get the care, which is only further delaying their care. At some level, we need to let the patient-physician relationship remain unaffected by politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Essentially, Bass \u2014 and other abortion advocates \u2014 want abortion legal for any reason at any time through all 40 weeks of pregnancy<\/em> \u2014 and are willing to exploit tragic stories of child loss, prenatal diagnosis, and maternal health emergencies to justify that desire. Though Time admitted that women will<\/em> seek out late-term abortions for reasons other than these \u2014 such as not realizing they were pregnant or because they had trouble getting an abortion prior to viability \u2014 the magazine still emphasized examples it thought would play on the emotions of its readers.<\/p>\n