Posted on 11/04/2024 8:23:11 PM PST by Morgana
The Harris-Walz campaign has not been shy in its push for abortion. It has been a major emphasis for the ticket this election cycle, with both Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz openly supporting abortion with no limits. According to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, the Left, including the Harris-Walz campaign, have continuously told “deceptive, incomplete, [and] sometimes flat-out false narratives to give lift to Kamala Harris’s talking point on what she calls ‘Trump’s abortion bans,’ which are the pro-life laws of states.”
On Thursday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” Dr. Donna Harrison, board-certified OB-GYN and director of Research for the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, joined host Perkins to discuss the truth behind the “lies” coming from pro-abortion activists on the Left, drawing special attention to the story of a woman in Texas whom abortion activists “claim died after doctors said it would be a crime to intervene in her miscarriage.” The story was published by ProPublica on Wednesday. But as Perkins asked, could it be that this is “just another case of a woman dying because of the Left’s lies and not pro-life laws?”
As Harrison pointed out about this case in Texas, “A lot of what we know is just what’s reported in the media.” However, “what I can say is … that pro-life doctors for 40 years before Dobbs have separated moms and babies when the mom’s life is at stake. And that isn’t anything” new. It’s “part of the tragedy” of caring for “any mom that is sick” with an “infection [and] needs to be separated from her baby,” she emphasized — “even if that baby can’t live.” But being able to discern when to make that decision is “just part of … good medical care.” It “has nothing to do with pro-life laws,” Harrison underscored, and “nothing to do with abortion regulations.”
“[A] mother is the first patient, is she not?” Perkins added. And while she’s not the only patient, doctors “are always going to work to help that mother in her medical condition.” Harrison agreed. “The mother is our patient. The child is our patient.” But the reality is, “There are … situations that are life-threatening that will save the mom’s life even though the baby dies.” And yet, even in those cases, Harrison contended that they’re still not considered abortions.
Harrison went on to explain how “the confusion about what an abortion is” often remains at the center of this debate pertaining to the treatment of miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies. “An abortion,” the doctor clarified, “is a procedure that’s done for the purpose and intent of producing a dead baby.” She further clarified that in an instance where a mother’s life is at risk, and the baby does not survive, that is not an abortion because “the purpose [was] not to produce a dead baby.” Again, Harrison stated, “The purpose of an abortion is to produce a dead baby.”
She went on to illustrate this further: “If there’s an abortion going on at 32 weeks and the baby lives, what do you call that? That’s a failed abortion. Why? [Because] the baby failed to die. The baby didn’t fail to separate. The baby failed to die.” As such, “it’s very clear that the purpose of an induced abortion … an elective abortion, is to produce a dead baby, not to save a mother’s life. That’s a completely different purpose.”
And now, Perkins argued, in addition to the harmful nature of abortion, “women’s lives [are] being endangered by these false narratives that are being told by political leaders like Walz and Harris.” In fact, he contended, “what I take away from statements they have made” is that they want “no limits” on abortion.
“Well, that’s exactly right,” Harrison replied. “[T]here are women that are dying from chemical abortions in states that have no pro-life restrictions. It’s not an issue of regulating abortion causing women to die. It’s an issue of women [who] deserve excellent medical care, and they deserve medical care that treats both them and their child as patients.” This, Harrison stressed, is “what we do as OB-GYN’s.”
“But when you become fixated on abortion [and] the ending of life,” Perkins concluded, “it’s hard to provide good health care and saving lives. I mean, that [abortion] becomes their top priority [is] astounding.”
The doctor nailed it. The purpose of an abortion is to produce a dead baby, not a living one.
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I have always said it is to kill the baby before it comes out and bothers someone.
Abortion people practically kill me if I say that.
Here’s the blunt truth, that pretty much wraps up the Democrat strategy with regards to Abortion: Dead Babies Don’t Vote!
Dead Babies Don’t Vote.They’re Dead. But their spirits cry out night and day to God Almighty, saying, “How long before you avenge our blood?!” The day will come when all the babies that were murdered in abortion will stand before the Bar of Gods justice and be introduced to the mothers who killed them.
That is sick as h€ll.
that is really PC. The purpose of abortion is to KILL a human being.
I’m 56.
I dated girls that had abortions early in their lives...one I dated in my late 20s, one in my early 30s.
Both needed to much psychiatric help (one became suicidal and one was cutting herself) that there was just no way forward.
One didn’t know that I knew she had an abortion.
She would contstantly tell me “God is punishing me and he wont ever stop!”
But she wouldn’t tell me why.
I finally told her I knew and to beg for forgiveness.
I moved on.
I dont know what happend with them.
But as well as being murder, it’s something that destroys any girl with any humanity left in her.
I’m soft and Christian so I pitied them and tried to help.
To no avail.
This is exactly why ectopic pregnancy surgeries were and have never been categorized as an abortion. And why actual doctors ob/gyn perform them. In real hospitals.
2 Corinthians 4:4
Unless that rare to prevent the mother’s death. I would go a little further to say if not for the health of the mother, then the reason is to eliminate the consequences and potential hardships of the pregnant woman. The consequences would be a change of lifestyle, an end to an unwanted relationship, financial considerations, embarrassment, etc. Which means ultimately an avoidance of responsibility for a myriad of reasons. The life and future of the baby is rarely considered.
For what it’s worth:
Definitions of abortion:
https://www.yalemedicine.org/clinical-keywords/abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the uterus. It can occur spontaneously, known as a miscarriage, or be induced intentionally through medical or surgical procedures.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/medical-tests-and-procedures/abortion-termination-of-pregnancy-a-to-z
Abortion (Termination Of Pregnancy) - Harvard Health
What Is It?
Abortion is the removal of pregnancy tissue, products of conception or the fetus and placenta (afterbirth) from the uterus. In general, the terms fetus and placenta are used after eight weeks of pregnancy. Pregnancy tissue and products of conception refer to tissue produced by the union of an egg and sperm before eight weeks.
Stedman’s Pocket Medical Dictionary, 1987, Williams & Wilkins, 428 East Preston Street, Baltimore MD 21202 U.S.A.
Abortion
1. Expelling an embryo or fetus prior to being viable. 2. The arrest of any action or process before it’s nor.mal completion.
criminal a., termination or pregnancy without medical or legal justification
habitual a., three or more consecutive, spontaneous a.’s at about the same stage of pregnancy.
incompete a., a. in which part of the products of conception remain in the uterus.
induced a., a. brought on purposely by drugs or mechanical means.
infected a., a. complicated by sepsis.
missed a., a. in which the fetus dies but is retained in utero for two months or longer.
septic a., an infectious a. complicated by fever, endometritis, and parametritis.
spontaneous a., a. occurring naturally.
therapeutic a., a. induced because of the mother’s physical or mental health, or to prevent birth of a deformed child or a child resulting from rape.
Politicians/legislators fail to adequately address natural abortion in legislation leading to the possibility or reality that medical professionals will be prosecuted for treating the results of natural abortion, thus their reluctance to do so.
If an abortion is the termination of a pregnancy before the product of conception is viable, and the product of conception survives the abortion effort alive, the abortion effort failed and it became the induced birth of a baby, said baby being protected by laws against neglect, homicide and so forth.
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