{"id":324916,"date":"2025-01-22T06:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=324916"},"modified":"2025-01-21T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:16:36","slug":"warren-hern-retirement-50-years-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/warren-hern-retirement-50-years-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Hern announces retirement after 50 years of committing late-term abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the country’s most infamous late-term abortionists is retiring after 50 years. Warren Hern will step down from his position at the helm of Boulder Abortion Clinic, which he founded \u2014 though the facility will remain open to continue ending the lives of preborn human beings.<\/p>\n

Ms. Magazine reported<\/a> that Hern’s official retirement date is today, January 22, 2025, exactly 50 years to the day that he opened his facility in Boulder, Colorado. He said that his facility will continue to provide “the safest, most compassionate and highest quality outpatient abortion services available anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notably, January 22, 1973 was the day Roe v. Wade<\/em> was foisted upon the nation by the U.S. Supreme Court. It was just two years later that Hern opened his business.<\/p>\n

While Ms. Magazine portrayed Hern in glowing terms, which is common among media outlets, the outlet also perpetrated numerous falsehoods about abortion, and about Hern himself.<\/p>\n

Why does Hern commit late-term abortions?<\/h3>\n

Hern told the magazine his facility will continue committing abortions through 32 weeks of pregnancy; who his replacement will be is not clear, as few abortionists are willing to commit abortions so late in pregnancy. Ms. Magazine noted, however, that the facility would continue “[specializing] in caring for women with advanced pregnancies afflicted with serious medical complications and fetal abnormalities.”<\/p>\n

This is a relatively new strategy from the abortion industry, with the goal of making late-term abortions more palatable to the public by claiming they are committed only in extreme, heartbreaking circumstances. Hern himself has taken to claiming this in recent years \u2014 but the problem is, it’s not true… and Hern himself has said so.<\/p>\n

In the Hern-authored textbook, “Abortion Practice,” he wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

At times, medical considerations enter into the picture, but decisions are usually made on the basis of such factors as desire or lack of desire for parenthood, stability of relationships, educational status, emotional status, or economic status, among others<\/strong> (emphasis added).<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, this textbook was only meant to be read by abortionists, not by the general public. And the facts are clear: most late-term abortions are not committed out of medical necessity.<\/p>\n

A 1988 Guttmacher study<\/a> found that just two percent (2%) of women who had abortions late in pregnancy did so because of a health problem with the baby. More than 20 years later, a 2013 study<\/a> \u2014 also published by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute \u2014 said, \u201c[D]ata suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another study<\/a> from the pro-abortion group ANSIRH in 2022 stated, \u201cThe reasons people need third-trimester abortions are not so different<\/strong> from why people need abortions before the third trimester\u2026 [T]he circumstances that lead to someone needing a third-trimester abortion have overlaps with the pathways to abortion at other gestations\u201d (emphasis added).<\/p>\n

That research also revealed:<\/p>\n

There are thus many reasons\u2014financial, logistical, and social\u2014why third-trimester abortion care is exceptional compared to first-trimester abortion care. However, there is reason to believe that the circumstances that lead to someone needing a third-trimester abortion are not exceptional. Several studies have highlighted the importance of the timing of pregnancy discovery, with later discovery associated with later presentation to abortion care. <\/em><\/p>\n

Other research has identified how laws that complicate people’s ability to access abortion, including parental involvement laws and laws that contribute to the reduction of abortion clinics, are associated with later presentation to abortion care for patients.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some women in the study reported that they didn’t know they were pregnant until later in pregnancy, and this was why their abortions were sought late in pregnancy.<\/p>\n

According to a report from the Congressional Research Service<\/a>, pro-abortion researcher Diana Greene Foster stated that abortions for fetal abnormalities \u201cmake up a small minority of later abortion.\u201d In addition, a 2010 paper<\/a> from Julia Steinberg of the pro-abortion Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health said, \u201cResearch suggests that the overwhelming majority of women having later abortions do so for reasons other than fetal anomaly (Drey et al., 2006; Finer et al., 2005, 2006; Foster et al., 2008).\u201d<\/p>\n

Hern even alluded<\/a> to what he sees as “serious medical complications” in an appearance on the Michael Shermer Show. What sort<\/em> of serious complications? Pregnancy itself.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Interviewer: “Do you ever get any women in their second half of the second trimester or in the third trimester that say they have no medical problems. They just don’t want the baby. They change their mind. Would you do it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Abortionist: \u201cOf course\u2026. That happens all the time.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/j8iRp0WgE5<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert A. J. Gagnon (@RobertAJGagnon1) November 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n