Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Late Trimester Abortions

Dr. Tiller was one of an unknown number who perform abortions in the third trimester of pregnancy ( 7th, 8th and 9th month).  HORRORS!  With Dr. Tiller's death, new facts are being revealed to the public.  In all honesty, they are not new facts, but they have been concealed to the public.  

Physician Leory Carhart who performs late term abortions in Nebraska stated, "75 to 100 of the several thousand abortions he performs yearly are in the third trimester."

Stanley K. Henshaw, a senior fellow at the Guttenmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood and the best source for statistics, is quoted in the Washington Post, " the information on late term abortions just isn't available."  Here's the real information from the  Guttenmacher Institute's own report. Its official statistics show that 13,310 abortions each year are at 21 weeks or more of gestational age.  To clarify, 1.1% of the 1.21 million abortions per year are past 21 weeks of pregnancy.  32 states of the 40 states reporting abortions, report  babies aborted at 21 weeks or more.  

This means every day 37 babies, 21 weeks or older, are dismembered or decapitated.  These include healthy babies of healthy mothers, because it is legal.  These are babies that mothers feel moving.  They have a heartbeat that can be heard with a stethoscope.  They have eyebrows, eyelashes, finger nails and toe nails and they can hear.

Maybe the abortion debate should center on late term abortions, after all the other side has covered up these facts for a long time.  

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