Mercy Abortions: Let me preach to the choir
By AnnRose, Section Hypocrites
Posted on Sun Jul 06, 2008 at 11:07:37 AM EST
Tags: abortion, late abortion, partial birth abortion, Dr. George Tiller, Dr. Warren Hern
Fewer than
2200/year or 0.2% of the 1.3 million abortions performed yearly are past 24 weeks. But, the anti-abortion propagandists have successfully maligned procedures at this stage of pregnancy by calling them "Partial Birth Abortions" (not a medical term, but a political one). Even pro-choice Democrats don't understand the reality of
late abortion.
I call abortions past 24 weeks Mercy Abortions...and I'll tell you why.
For 14 years, I worked at Midtown Hospital in Atlanta, a woman's hospital specializing in late abortion. The hospital opened in 1977 because at that time, Georgia law mandated that an abortion past 12 weeks had to be performed in a hospital. Abortion had just been made legal in 1973 and it became the first procedure to be widely performed on an outpatient basis.
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