Abortion supporters falsely claim late-term abortions — especially those done in the third trimester — aren’t done on healthy babies. Abortionists, however, tell a different story.
Late-term New Mexico abortionist Susan Robinson has admitted that not all women are seeking such late abortions for reasons of maternal health or fetal indication. She said:
Women whose fetuses have terrible abnormalities … are a lot easier for people to understand. The husband and wife want to spare their baby whatever suffering that baby would have…. Then there’s the group of women who didn’t know they were pregnant. They were told they were not pregnant for one reason or another and they are just as desperate. “I already have three children, my husband just lost his job and I can barely put food on the table. If I add a new baby to this family, we’ll all go under.”
Infamous late-term abortionist George Tiller admitted the same, telling a National Abortion Federation audience in 1995, “We have some experience with late terminations; about 10,000 patients between 24 and 36 weeks and something like 800 fetal anomalies between 26 and 36 weeks in the past 5 years.” That equates to a mere eight percent of Tiller’s late-term patients who aborted because their babies were diagnosed prenatally with a health condition.
READ: How third trimester abortion works: The Induction Method
“House of Horrors” abortionist Kermit Gosnell operated legally for years until he was caught snipping the necks of fully developed, healthy babies he was hired to abort, after he delivered them alive.
In February of 1993, legally licensed New York abortionist Abu Hayat performed a third trimester abortion on the mother of little Ana Rosa Rodriguez, who survived the abortion. Hayat’s attempt ended after he severed the arm of the 32-week victim in her mother’s womb. Hayat was eventually convicted of performing the third trimester procedure.
At that time, New York prohibited these barbaric late-term procedures because Roe v. Wade allows states to pass some abortion restrictions after viability as long as they don’t put a highly subjective “undue burden” on women. The state recently rolled back these protections, essentially allowing abortion on demand up to birth. The change in law was, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo, to “codify the law from 1973” — Roe v. Wade and its companion decision, Doe v. Bolton. The text of Doe makes it clear that abortion can be committed at any time, even for reasons of emotional or “familial” health.
Had Hayat done the same thing today, no criminal penalties would be in place for this abortionist. Ana Rodriguez is one of many babies dubbed a “dreaded complication” by the abortion industry — the “complication” of a child who survived abortion. Live Action News has detailed many cases of babies born alive after abortion attempts — babies no longer protected under New York law.
A bill similar to New York’s, introduced in Virginia, was halted in committee.
In 1997, the head of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers admitted that partial-birth abortion, a heinous and brutal type of late-term abortion, actually wasn’t being committed only in rare cases. A report by the LA Times stated (emphasis added):
The abortion rights folks know it, the anti-abortion folks know it and so, probably, does everyone else.” So spoke Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, in an interview about the facts of partial-birth abortion, whereby a living child is pulled from its mother until all but the head is delivered. A scissors is plunged into the skull, a tube inserted and the brains suctioned out. The now-dead infant is then delivered. Partial-birth abortion, Fitzsimmons now says, is performed 3,000 to 5,000 times a year, most often on the healthy mothers of healthy babies.
Fitzsimmons told Nightline, “The majority of these procedures are performed… on healthy women and healthy fetuses….Women come in at that point unfortunately, for whatever reason, seeking abortion services. We estimate that approximately 3,000 to 5,000 are performed in the United States on an annual basis.” The Rome News-Tribune from 1997 (pictured below) states that Fitzimmons “said he lied when he said that… partial-birth abortions are performed rarely and only to save the mother’s life or to abort malformed fetuses.”
If this was the case with partial-birth abortions, why should the reasons for any other type of late-term abortion be different?
Ron Fitzsimmons lied over partial birth abortions
