And yes, Shirley, I jest...
Posted on 02/25/2019 12:02:38 AM PST by kathsua
Doctor and Kansas Rep. Roger W. Marshall wrote an op-ed saying there aren’t any reasons why a late-term abortion is necessary to protect a woman’s health.
“To this day, I can’t think of a single scenario where I thought a late-term abortion would help to improve a woman’s mental health,” Marshall wrote in a Monday op-ed published by Fox News. “Contrary to the pro-abortion movement, regardless of the mother’s underlying medical health, I never saw the scenario where we had to choose between a mom’s life and a baby,” Marshall wrote.
Marshall is an obstetrician who has delivered more than 5,000 babies in Western Kansas over 25 years. He also served as an OB-GYN at a state mental health hospital and prison.
Pregnant women face much higher risks for uterine perforation and life-threatening hemorrhaging during late-term abortions, according to Marshall. The procedures also pose a high risk of infection, permanent scarring and infertility, according to the doctor.
“Point blank, late-term abortions are unsafe and are more dangerous than naturally occurring childbirth in almost any situation,” Marshall wrote.
A number of states, including Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Maine, New Mexico and Maryland, are considering proposals to expand abortion access allowing women to abort in the late stages of pregnancy.
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New York passed the Reproductive Health Act on Jan. 22, codifying a woman’s ability to abort under state law and allowing women to have abortions after 24 weeks in cases where “there is an absence of fetal viability, or at any time when necessary to protect a patient’s life or health,” according to the legislation.
Marshall called New York’s law “inhumane” for both mothers and children.
“I urge you to tell all of your elected federal officials to support the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which is the first step to immediately protect those babies who have survived botched abortions and mandate that they receive proper medical care,” the doctor and state representative also urged.
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would mandate babies born alive after an abortion would receive the “same protection of law as any newborn.”
Seventy-five percent of Americans support significant abortion restrictions and say abortion should be limited to the first three months of pregnancy, according to a January Marist survey.
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Duhuh.....The left of course says it’s the mental health....
Doesn’t matter. They removed that last excuse, they don’t even have to lie anymore to get an abortion. It’s now killing on demand for the whole nine months plus.
He’s correct.
The Anti-Life folks have known this all along.
Amen!!
Agree, thank you doctor...
As a son of an OBGYN, I’ve heard this for over 50 years, and have been repeating it nearly as long.
“...The left of course says it’s the mental health....”
Maybe that is because all LIBERAL WOMEN be crazy?
And yes, Shirley, I jest...
Yes, thank you Doctor.
It chills me to think that if he practiced in New York State they’d be trying to yank his license for saying this.
Of course it is not. Leftists lie so that they can murder people right under other people’s noses and get away with it.
Leftists are murderers and thieves and only want power in government to use its monopoly on force to destroy their enemies.
JoMa
It’s amazing that we as a society have to cover the same old ground over and over. We never learn. Is it that hard to understand? I think it’s just this idea in society now that I want what I want and when I want it. It doesn’t matter what reality is.
I will say that I know of someone who had a choice to make between their pregnancy and having found to have breast cancer. That’s a tough choice that I think should be left up to the woman.
It’s a very rare situation but the baby’s life is not more important than the mother, it’s just as important.
Bkmrk
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