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By: S.A. McCarthy, originally published September 27, 2024, The Washington Stand<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mainstream media has been\u00a0running cover<\/a>\u00a0for the pro-abortion presidential campaign run by Vice President Kamala Harris, allowing the candidate\u2019s false assertions to go mostly unchallenged in her race to the White House. But while ABC News may have\u00a0refused<\/a>\u00a0to fact-check Harris\u2019s presidential debate arguments, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with The Washington Post is fact-checking the vice president\u2019s lies about abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to Harris\u2019s claim during this month\u2019s presidential debate that late-term abortions are \u201cnot happening,\u201d Kathleen Parker, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2010,\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0an article in the Post last week arguing \u201cLate-term abortions are not a myth. They\u2019re happening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parker began by noting that Harris and her allies have talked \u201ca lot about the 14 states that have banned access to abortion and the 27 others that have restrictions based on gestational duration.\u201d She went on, \u201cBut we\u2019ve heard little to nothing about the nine states and the District of Columbia that allow abortion no matter what the age of the fetus. This basically means up until the moment of birth.\u201d Parker continued, \u201cDemocrats bent on restoring abortion rights would have us believe that no state would allow a fully formed baby to be aborted, and it is rational to believe this. But such is not always the case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To illustrate her point, she cited the example of Warren Hern, an 86-year-old abortionist in Colorado who was\u00a0profiled<\/a>\u00a0last year by The Atlantic. Hern\u2019s website\u00a0advertises<\/a>\u00a0the fact that he commits late-term, third-trimester abortions. \u201cHern estimated that about half of his later-term abortions are of healthy babies,\u201d Parker reported, noting that Hern\u2019s abortion facility commits roughly a dozen second- and third-trimester abortions weekly. She continued, \u201cSometimes, in Hern\u2019s procedures, a fetus can be removed whole, but other times it has to be dismembered. All in another wretched day\u2019s work, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parker observed, \u201cIt took a while for Hern to become comfortable with his work, which at first took an emotional toll on him. \u2026 [H]e would see the tiny fetuses with still-beating hearts that he had removed from their mothers\u2019 wombs. He had bad dreams and sometimes wept, wondering what he was doing.\u201d The journalist added, \u201cHern felt that it was fair for him to suffer emotional distress as part of the job, and he says he knew deep down that he was helping, not hurting women. This is surely debatable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hern has also committed at least two abortions for the purpose of sex-selection, Parker reported: a baby boy was killed when his mother wanted a girl, and a baby girl was killed when her mother didn\u2019t want a girl. \u201cDo we really want to codify this deadly game of baby roulette?\u201d Parker asked. She continued, \u201cI\u2019d like to think sex-selection abortion is beyond the comprehension of most people. But abortion culture has had the undesirable, if predictable, effect of making us less horrified by worse and worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noting that by the end of the first trimester an unborn baby has fingerprints, veins, and organs, and female babies already have visible ovaries, Parker asked, \u201cIf that\u2019s not a human life, what is it?\u201d By the end of the second trimester, Parker observed, the unborn baby\u2019s brain is active, he opens his eyes, he wakes and sleeps. \u201cThis is no matter to the nine states and the District of Columbia,\u201d Parker wrote. She noted that by 32 weeks, the baby is preparing to be born. \u201cFor the remaining seven to eight weeks, it gains a third to half its birth weight, which may be why Hern prefers a 32-week limit, although he\u2019ll operate even later. Fully formed babies are a lot more trouble to destroy,\u201d Parker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referring to Harris\u2019s recent penchant for\u00a0adopting<\/a>\u00a0Republican policies she once derided, the Pulitzer Prize-winner concluded, \u201cSo, yes, Madam Vice President, late-term abortions are happening and not just for anomalies or medical reasons. As we\u2019ve learned, you\u2019re willing to change your positions based on new information. I hope this helps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris\u2019s abortion lies have not been limited to the topic of late-term abortions. Over the past week, the vice president has faced criticism from\u00a0doctors<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0OB\/GYNs<\/a>\u00a0for her talking points on pro-life state laws, specifically in Georgia. Harris has claimed that two women, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, were left to die because the Peach State\u2019s pro-life protections prevented doctors from treating the pregnant women. Medical professionals have pointed out that the women developed sepsis because they took abortion pills and that Georgia\u2019s laws would not have prevented medical care for either woman \u2014 but lies about those lies prevented Thurman and Miller from seeking the medical care that they needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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