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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums“Partial Birth” and Partial Truths, Part One
Partial Birth and Partial Truths, Part One
This horror show of an election season is dredging up some very ugly things. And one of the ugliest is the web of lies surrounding the issue of late-term abortions or as anti-abortion toadies like to call them, PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS!!!! in which they RIP THE BABY from the womb!!!!
One of the upsides of dredging up this sort of muck is that you can finally expose it for what it is. The Partial Birth Abortion is a bogeyman that conservatives have been trying to scare voters with for years. The truth is that theres nothing under the bed, kids. The place where much of the muck is dredged from is a fetid swamp called Life Site News, a clearinghouse for falsehoods, myths, and general misogyny. Their anti-choice agenda relies on convincing people that abortion access means that any woman can demand an abortion for any reason whatsoever right up until the moment she goes into labor. And that this happens with alarming regularity.
In a recent propaganda posting, the Life Site lizards laid out their agenda for convincing America to believe in the partial birth bogeyman, in four easily debunked steps. Here they are:
Late-term abortion, until the moment of birth, is legal in the U.S.
The lie: they want you to believe that giggling pregnant teenagers can waltz into a doctors office the day before their due date and force good Christian doctors to murder their child.
The truth: the Supreme Court has mandated that any restrictions on abortion have to take into account the life and health of the mother. And very, very rarely that can require terminating a pregnancy in the third trimester.
Partial-birth abortion is truly gruesome, and its not illegal nationwide.
The lie: What they do here is to describe virtual infanticide in terms graphic enough to upset Stephen King. That simply does not happen.
The truth: as pointed out in a great Huffington Post article debunking the partial birth myth, is that the term partial birth is propaganda, not medicine. The term is rejected by the American Congress of OB/GYN. The article describes the procedure of dilation and extraction, which is sometimes medically necessaryand is performed any time after 20 weeksnot in final 24 hours of pregnancy. Dilation and extraction procedures are used in only 0.2 percent of abortions and are illegal unless the mothers life is at risk.
Planned Parenthood performs late-term abortions.
The lie: of course Life Site will want to associate their bogeyman with the EVIL EMPIRE! But it takes some smoke and mirrors to do it. The Life Site article actually says Some consider any abortion after 20 weeks to be late-term. Oh! Do some?
The truth: Planned Parenthood advertises that they will perform abortions up to 24 weeks. Thats a far cry from the ninth-month pregnancies that Life Site spends the rest of the article screaming about.
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“Partial Birth” and Partial Truths, Part One (Original Post)
niyad
Oct 2016
OP
you are most welcome. when I heard that bs coming out of drumpfy's mouth the night of the third
niyad
Oct 2016
#2
of course it's bullshit. And it deliberately tries to obscure a central conceit of the anti-choice
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#7
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,660 posts)1. Thank you for this post, my dear niyad.
Sunlight is a disinfectant, and disinfecting is just what this right wing claptrap needs.
K&R
niyad
(113,490 posts)2. you are most welcome. when I heard that bs coming out of drumpfy's mouth the night of the third
debate, it made me sick.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,660 posts)3. Yeah, it made me sick too. What a dumb-ass!
niyad
(113,490 posts)4. I have other words for him--MANY other words, many not fit for mixed company!!
Kath1
(4,309 posts)5. Refreshing to hear the truth on this issue.
Thank you!
niyad
(113,490 posts)6. you are most welcome.
love that graphic!!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)7. of course it's bullshit. And it deliberately tries to obscure a central conceit of the anti-choice
movement, namely that (in addition to mandating that strangers and not women themselves should be the ones making decisions about the womens' own bodies) ---
this
should be treated by law as being the exact same thing as this:
I was pleased to see HRC push back on this- when abortions do take place late in pregnancy they are generally for the most heartbreaking but necessary medical reasons.