Major abortion group calls for abortion until birth

The National Abortion Federation, a professional association of abortion providers, publicly updated their policy to support abortion throughout all stages of pregnancy earlier this week.

The group updated the policy to mark the anniversary of the Dobbs decision that returned abortion legislation to the states — the decision that enabled more states to enact laws that protect unborn children.

“This moment demands a new era of abortion advocacy, one that understands viability and gestational limits are common and equally harmful forms of abortion bans,” read a joint statement from the National Abortion Federation and Physicians for Reproductive Health. “When laws regulating abortion care include arbitrary legal limits, politicians and police are invited into exam rooms, advancing control over pregnant people — forcing them to stay pregnant and finding ways to punish them when they don’t.”

The policy opposes laws that are common in pro-life states, like viability-based and gestation-based laws.

The group’s policy “supports abortion care and access throughout pregnancy and opposes legislation and policies that interfere with that care, including viability limits and gestation-based bans.”

Live Action spokesman Noah Brandt condemned the policy for dehumanizing unborn babies.

“The National Abortion Federation is a radical organization dedicated solely to dehumanizing every child in the womb, pushing for abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, and advocating for the destruction of children nationwide,” Brandt told EWTN News.

“By formally rejecting any legal limits on abortion at any stage of pregnancy for any reason, the NAF only further exposes their intent, justifying the violent killing of viable babies which can include excruciating dismemberment or a lethal injection into the baby’s heart,” he indicated.

“Opposing any limit to abortion denies basic biology and the humanity of preborn children from the moment of conception,” Brandt added. “As pro-life Americans, we must focus on life-affirming policies that protect both mother and child by rejecting abortion at any stage and offering true help through sacrifice, service, and prayer,” he emphasized.

“The National Abortion Federation’s agenda for abortion with no limits has become the de facto position of the Democratic Party,” Kelsey Pritchard, communications director for SBA Pro-Life America told EWTN News. “The U.S. is 1 of 8 countries in the world that allows all-trimester abortion and we’re on that list with Communist China and Vietnam. Fifteen states allow abortion at any point, including in the seventh, eighth and ninth months of pregnancy.”

Pritchard noted that “several abortion businesses openly advertise third-trimester abortions,” including ones in Colorado, Maryland, and Illinois. “This isn’t just hypothetical: second and third trimester abortions are happening in the blue states,” Pritchard said. “Babies who can feel pain and survive outside of the womb are being killed.”

Meanwhile, Dr. Christina Francis, head of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, observed: “There is never a need to intentionally end the life of our preborn patient at any point in pregnancy.”

“Claims that induced abortion is ‘necessary’ later in pregnancy (at a point when a baby can survive outside of the mother) are not only ignorant of medical facts, but theyʼre also dangerous,” Francis said. “Abortions later in pregnancy are dangerous for women, increasing their risk of immediate complications, adverse mental health outcomes, preterm birth in future pregnancies, and even death.”

“If a mother is facing a serious pregnancy complication, she can be delivered, and both patients can receive the care they need and deserve,” Francis said.

Pritchard called for action, noting that “only 10% of voters support abortion up until birth.”

“This week, we celebrated the overturn of Roe v. Wade, which ended a dark period in our nation’s history, saving innocent lives by allowing the people and their elected representatives to protect precious preborn children,” Brandt said.

“In America’s 250th year, the pro-life movement and the GOP must take bold new steps to make progress toward a national minimum standard to protect unborn children in every state,” Pritchard said.

This type of law, she said, would “be the ‘floor’ that establishes a limit for the whole country – including in blue states – and allows pro-life states to continue to aggressively protect life even further.”

Source: https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/major-abortion-group-calls-for-abortion-until-birth