{"id":89731,"date":"2016-03-11T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=89731"},"modified":"2016-03-12T21:08:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T03:08:30","slug":"naral-questions-democratic-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/naral-questions-democratic-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"NARAL has questions for the Democratic candidates. So do I."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ilyse Hogue is one of the abortion industry\u2019s loudest defenders. As president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, she\u2019s fought to keep late-term abortion<\/a> legal and unsafe facilities<\/a> in business. She also said something I agreed with.<\/p>\n

Hogue wants to see the Democratic candidates talk more about abortion, complaining that it wasn\u2019t mentioned at all during their first six debates. To fix that, she suggested some questions<\/a> for the moderators to ask.<\/p>\n

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I have to say, I\u2019m on board with the concept. In fact, I\u2019d be thrilled if pro-abortion candidates had to advertise their views. The truth is, most people<\/a> don\u2019t really have positive thoughts about abortion, and the more they learn about it, the less positive<\/a> those thoughts usually get.<\/p>\n

I feel like Hogue\u2019s questions just don’t cover the right issues, though, so I came up with a few of my own. I doubt they\u2019ll get much air time, but feel free to pass them around.<\/p>\n

1. Abortions at 20 weeks typically involve a technique known as dilation and evacuation (D&E), whereby a fetus is pulled apart one piece at a time. Given that Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand\u2019s research at the University of Tennessee suggests that a fetus can feel pain<\/a> by this point, don\u2019t abortions at 20 weeks amount to torture? <\/b><\/p>\n

It would be nice if that got asked by someone who knows abortion firsthand – somebody like<\/a> Dr. Anthony Levatino. Dr. Levatino performed over twelve hundred abortions, and in the video below, he explains what a D&E entails.<\/p>\n