Title: On Late-Term Abortion, 2020 Democrats Are to the Left Even of Obama in 2008
Headings: On Late-Term Abortion, 2020 Democrats Are to the Left Even of Obama in 2008
On Late-Term Abortion, 2020 Democrats Are to the Left Even of Obama in 2008
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Content: That’s a longer conversation than we have [time for] here,” he said. Maybe Marianne Williamson, the New Age author, would like to extend some love to viable unborn children? “ This is a made-up issue in my mind. A woman doesn’t stroll into an abortion clinic at eight-and-a-half months and say, ‘Oh well, I don’t think I want to do this,’” Williamson told me. But what about, say, prohibiting abortion at 23 weeks into pregnancy when the viable baby and mother are both physically healthy? “ I have a problem with the government telling a woman” what to do, Williamson replied. The issue of late-term abortion is certainly not a made-up issue. There are more late-term abortions than gun homicides committed annually in the United States. And according to a 2013 study, conducted by professors at the University of California, San Francisco, “data suggest most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.” Just last month, BuzzFeed News profiled a healthy woman who aborted her healthy baby at 21 weeks, mere days before the child was old enough to survive outside the womb.