{"id":99612,"date":"2016-08-25T10:38:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=99612"},"modified":"2019-01-30T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T20:16:10","slug":"late-term-abortions-almost-never-done-unhealthy-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/late-term-abortions-almost-never-done-unhealthy-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Late-term abortions ‘almost never’ done on unhealthy babies, says clinic worker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Margot, a former abortion clinic worker, was interviewed by Abby Johnson on a webcast<\/a>\u00a0done by And Then There Were None<\/a>.\u00a0 And Then There Were None is an organization that helps abortion center\u00a0workers leave the abortion industry. \u00a0The organization\u00a0has helped over 200\u00a0abortion facility\u00a0workers and 7 full time abortionists leave their jobs.<\/p>\n

Former abortion worker Margot worked in a late-term abortion facility\u00a0in the POC room. POC stand for \u201cproducts of conception,\u201d a term clinic workers use for aborted babies. Margot\u00a0handled and inspected the fully formed body parts of late term babies killed in abortions.<\/p>\n

At one point in the webcast, Abby Johnson asks her:<\/p>\n

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You worked at a late-term clinic. Can you share just a little bit, was there a specific profile of the women who came in? You know, we always hear from the abortion movement that the only women who have late-term abortions are women who have been given an extremely grave fetal diagnosis. Was that always the case in your clinic? Because I, you know for us, we referred women who had completely healthy pregnancies, who had completely healthy babies, to places like Doctor Tiller and Doctor Warren Hern in Colorado. So could you just speak to that a little bit. I\u2019m sure that there were cases where there had been the anomaly diagnosed, but was that always the case in your clinic?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Johnson is responding to the common pro-abortion argument that all late term abortions are done because of horrible health problems experienced by the mother or baby. Many pro-choice organizations claim that late term abortions are only done in these dire circumstances- when the baby will die shortly after birth or be born horribly disabled.<\/p>\n

Margot replies:<\/p>\n

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Almost never, Abby. Almost never. Almost never. I would say that the highest profile of women that were having the late-term abortions were completely normal pregnancies, quite often young, and sometimes had just had more fear of having to tell someone they were pregnant, or being so completely out of touch with their own body that they didn\u2019t understand and how rapidly the pregnancy was progressing, or I don\u2019t know.\u2026<\/p>\n

Overwhelmingly, the late-term procedures that we did were not for fetal anomalies. We did late-term procedures on women who were perimenopausal and didn\u2019t want to be pregnant. We did them on teenagers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is a myth that late-term abortions are only done for fetal anomalies or disabilities. Of course, even in such\u00a0cases one can argue that it is wrong to take a baby\u2019s life just because they will be disabled. No one has the right to judge another person\u2019s life not worth living and act as executioner for that person.<\/p>\n

But many late-term abortions are done on healthy mothers with healthy babies. Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist, described the process of a late-term induction abortion, which he says is performed from 25 weeks to term:<\/p>\n