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Excerpt from www.lifenews.com… Only a handful of abortionists in the United States perform late abortions. One of them, Warren Hern of Colorado, was profiled in The Atlantic.
He specializes in abortions late in pregnancy—the rarest, and most controversial, form of abortion. This means that Hern ends the pregnancies of women who are 22, 25, even 30 weeks along.
In The Atlantic interview, it is noted that, “Hern is reluctant to acknowledge any limit, any red line. He takes the woman’s-choice argument to its logical conclusion…”
Rovner trots out her trump card, Katrina Kimport, a medical sociologist and professor at the University of California at San Francisco, who has interviewed “more than 50 women who terminated pregnancies after 24 weeks.”
There is nothing new in Prof. Kimport’s report, certainly nothing that challenges the number of late-term abortions which Rovner dismisses as “vanishingly small.”
John McCormack of National Review, put this “vanishingly small” number in context:
NBC’s Dasha Burns pointed to the fact that 1.3 percent of abortions happen at 21 weeks or later, but 1.3 percent of 930,000 total abortions still equals 12,000 unique human beings killed each year at 21 weeks or later, when babies are capable of feeling pain and sometimes capable of surviving outside of the womb. There are fewer than 12,000 total gun homicides in the United States each year. Burns, in an attempt to minimize the horror of late-term abortion, actually ended up agreeing that late-term abortions do in fact happen in the United States.
