OB/GYN says ‘Parents’ mag removed his quotes because he didn’t push pro-abortion narrative

An Arizona OB/GYN is speaking out after Parents magazine removed his quotes from an article, ostensibly because they weren’t supportive enough of abortion.

In the article, published March 7th, Parents magazine discussed a TikTok trend of people allegedly creating living wills, dictating that they want the mother’s life to be saved, and not the baby’s, in case of an emergency. The hashtag #savemefirst has been trending, though other users said they would want the baby’s life saved instead. The trend is due to cases of medical neglect, which media outlets have tried to blame on pro-life laws.

In cases that made headlines, women who experienced complications such as pre-eclampsia or an incompetent cervix were not given the standard medical care that they needed — including medication or medical procedures — and it quickly morphed into claims of so-called “necessary” abortions, even though abortion is not the recommended treatment for virtually any of the procedures mentioned.

Dr. Greg Marchand was interviewed for the article, and initially, his comments were included.

“All board-certified OB-GYNs in the United States understand when a [birthing parent’s] life is in danger, none of us are afraid to act,” his original quote read. “I would never hesitate to terminate a pregnancy when a [parent’s] life is in danger, and I am certain I speak for every board-certified OB-GYN in the country when I say that. None of us are scared; none of us want to ‘check with our lawyers’ or need a refresher on the law.”

He also added, “Plainly put, there are no situations where a doctor must make a ‘save one or the other decision’ urgently… If something has gotten to the point where an emergency surgery must be performed, there is no longer a choice at that moment.”

Dr. Marchand tweeted “kudos” to Parents for publishing his comments. However, this praise would soon change:

State pro-life law contain exceptions for emergencies in which the necessary treatment for the mother means the preborn child might not survive. Ectopic pregnancy, for example, is life-threatening to the mother; there is no treatment currently available to save the mother’s life and allow the preborn baby to survive as well. But the surgery to remove the preborn child is not an induced abortion with the intent of ending the child’s life, and is not prohibited by any laws.

If an emergency such as pre-eclampsia occurs, the only treatment option is delivery; often, doctors can prescribe medication to lessen the symptoms and give the mother a chance to wait longer, so the baby has a better chance of survival. But in the rare instances in which it’s too early and the pregnancy must end, the baby will still have to be delivered, even if he or she will be too premature to survive. This is not an induced abortion, which is the direct and intentional killing of the preborn child in which the goal is a dead child. In preterm delivery and other emergency life-saving procedures, the goal is to save lives, and the child is not intentionally killed prior to delivery.

Such treatments are legal in every single state, and despite emotional claims to the contrary, induced abortion — the intentional, targeted taking of a preborn life — is never medically necessary.

Yet two days after publication, Marchand’s comments were suddenly removed from the article.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Marchand said he believes the comments were removed because they didn’t push abortion enough.

“It wasn’t like I was on there saying all abortions are wrong or all abortion is murder or something like that,” he said. “What I was doing was presenting the factual arguments, the facts of the case, so to speak, as to why the disinformation from the left just wasn’t true and why there are no emergency circumstances where doctors are going to have to choose between your life and the baby’s life, and there’s just no circumstances where elective abortion laws are going to make a woman’s life be in danger from other types of emergency situations.”

He further argued that Parents magazine preferred to spread pro-abortion misinformation than present factual information.

“The disinformation that goes around abortion is really some of the most powerful disinformation there is,” he said. “[I]n these cases, there’s a little bit more medicine to it, there’s a little medical terminology, and somebody who’s not very familiar with medical terminology or medicine really could fall into the trap of believing this.”

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