{"id":95543,"date":"2016-06-03T14:24:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T18:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=95543"},"modified":"2016-09-01T15:35:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:35:50","slug":"pro-lifers-arent-trying-ban-abortion-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-lifers-arent-trying-ban-abortion-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-lifers aren’t trying to ban abortion because it’s ‘gross’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion advocates will do whatever they can to undermine the pro-life movement. From claiming that pro-lifers are anti-woman to framing abortion as “health care,” it seems there’s no tactic they won’t try.<\/p>\n

Vox is trying one that’s fairly surprising. They’re trying to convince people that pro-lifers are trying to ban abortion by “grossing people out”.<\/p>\n

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Pro-life advocates are trying to ban abortion by grossing people out about it https:\/\/t.co\/HhnvBd5LgZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Vox (@voxdotcom) June 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The article, written by Emily Crockett, complains that pro-lifers won’t stop talking about the unpleasant details of abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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D&E bans are quickly becoming the latest trend in anti-abortion lawmaking at the state level. They have colorful names like the “Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act.” And some advocates and lawmakers are using them to focus on the lurid details of later abortion procedures, in hopes of turning more Americans against abortion and making the procedure easier to outlaw or restrict.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Crockett even defended partial-birth abortions, something that only the most extreme of abortion advocates would dare to do, claiming that “the focus on the unpleasant details of the procedure helped to sway the public against it – and even to sway more people against abortion in general for a time.”<\/p>\n

She\u00a0then goes on to complain about how D&E abortions are also called\u00a0“dismemberment” abortions:<\/p>\n

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It would be no surprise, then, if abortion opponents wanted to build on that success and use it to try to ban abortion much more broadly. And so it comes as no surprise that anti-abortion advocates have rebranded the regular D&E procedure as a “dismemberment abortion,” which is also not a medical term.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Abortionists may not refer to D&E procedures as dismemberment abortions, that’s true. But it isn’t a lie to say that preborn babies are being dismembered during these abortions, because that is what happens<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Former abortionist<\/a> Dr. Anthony Levatino explains the procedure<\/a>: The abortionist puts laminaria into the woman’s cervix to aid in dilation. 24-48 hours later, when she returns to the abortion facility, he opens the cervix more using metal dilators and a speculum. He then drains the uterus of amniotic fluid and gets to work on the preborn baby.<\/p>\n

Using a sopher clamp, the abortionist grasps the baby’s limbs and tears them from the baby’s body, one by one. He then will move on to the baby’s body parts – the baby’s intestines, spine, lungs, heart – and finally, the head.<\/p>\n