In April 2022, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health published Is third-trimester abortion exceptional? Two pathways to abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy in the United States by Katrina Kimport. The article is open access, meaning anyone can read it in its entirety. Third trimester abortions aren’t all for medical emergencies. Many Americans–pro-choice and pro-life […]
Melissa Block with NPR spoke to Dr. Diane Horvath and Morgan Nuzzo about the clinic they are opening in Maryland, “Partners in Abortion Care.” Calling it an “all trimester” clinic, the article specifies When it opens sometime after Labor Day, Partners in Abortion Care will be one of only a handful of clinics in the […]
[Post-publication update, May 2023: I spoke in more detail about this clinic visit in a podcast episode with Equal Rights Institute] On January 12, 2022, I was 27 weeks and 1 day pregnant when I called the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington DC to schedule an abortion for the following week. The woman on the phone […]
The five babies who inspired the #JusticeForTheFive movement will receive autopsies, according to Progressive Pro-Life Uprising (PAAU). On March 25, PAAU activists Terrisa Bukovinac and Lauren Handy recovered the remains of 115 children who were killed by D.C. abortionist Cesare Santangelo. (Bukovinac is an atheist with deep connections to Secular Pro-Life.) Most of the victims […]
Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) has announced a $25,000 reward for information that leads the conviction of late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo. Last month, PAAU activists recovered the remains of 115 abortion victims from Santangelo’s Washington, D.C. abortion center. Five of them appear to have been old enough to survive outside the womb. One baby girl bore […]
At the beginning of April, pro-life activist Lauren Handy made national news when she turned over to DC police the remains of five aborted children. Handy had recently obtained these remains from a truck driver for a medical waste company who had been transporting them from the Washington Surgi-Clinic. In the days following the initial […]
Last week, news reports swirled about five fetal bodies that were “found” during a “raid” on Lauren Handy’s apartment. Those aspects of the reporting may not have been accurate. In a press conference yesterday, Handy gave her side of the story. She states that she made advance arrangements through her attorney for homicide detectives to […]
Today’s post is by Herb Geraghty, Executive Director for Rehumanize International. He originally gave these thoughts on Twitter here in response to Live Action’s recent release of horrifically graphic photos and videos of the remains of the five children aborted very late in pregnancy. The fetal remains were obtained by Lauren Handy (Director of Activism […]
Today’s guest post is by Kristina Artuković. Kristina has masters degrees in philosophy and philology. She is also mother to a child with Down syndrome. Brief background: Down syndrome is a condition caused by an extra copy of our 21st chromosome. An extra copy of a chromosome is called a trisomy, which is why Down […]
[This post is available as a Twitter thread here.] Introduction ACOG (the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) recently released a “Guide to Language and Abortion,” and Quartz covered the guide in their article “13 phrases US doctors want removed from our vocabulary about abortion.” It’s problematic to assume ACOG and “US doctors” are interchangeable […]
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