Whole Women’s Health Alliance, a chain of abortion businesses, tweeted that it has been killing more babies by dismemberment abortion (D&E) — and used that horrific information to call for more abortion.
On November 14, 2023, Whole Woman’s Health Alliance tweeted, “We have seen a 62% increase in second trimester abortions in our Minnesota clinic.” It also claimed, “Reminder: Abortion bans are harmful and cause unnecessary delays to care.”
Likewise, on November 1, 2023, Whole Woman’s Health Alliance tweeted, “We have seen a 56% increase in second trimester abortions in our Virginia clinic. More abortion seekers are facing delays to care due to managing costs and having farther to travel for their appointments. Abortion bans have been and will continue to cause them.”
Warning: Disturbing images below.
Pro-life laws don’t cause abortions
To blame pro-life laws for an increase in second-trimester D&E dismemberment abortions is disingenuous. Unjust laws allowing the dismemberment of preborn human beings are to blame and should not exist to begin with. If Minnesota and Virginia, as well as other states, refused to let preborn children be killed and protected them as they should, there would be no second-trimester abortions to either boast or complain about. Federal protections for preborn children are the solution, not more killing through expanded abortion laws.
Statistics show that pro-life laws do prevent abortions. As Live Action News has previously reported, data from the Society of Family Planning reveals that there were 32,260 fewer abortions in the six months following Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. States with stronger pro-life laws saw a decline in the number of abortions, while less restrictive states saw increases.
Whole Woman’s Health’s tweets are acts of manipulation, because no one needs to kill their own child (born or preborn), and certainly a law meant to protect a child from death does not cause that child to be brutally murdered later on in development. This is warped and illogical thinking. The cause of that child’s death is the act of killing itself. No one is forcing abortion businesses to kill children, at any stage of gestation.
Induced abortion — the direct and intentional killing of a preborn child — is not medically necessary, and it is certainly not health care. Health care does not do this:
Baby Ángel was killed by dismemberment abortion late in pregnancy and his body was found in a medical waste bin outside a DC abortion business. Photo courtesy of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.
Baby Holly was dismembered by a D&E abortion in a Washington DC abortion facility. She was found in a medical waste bin. Photo courtesy of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.
The mangled bodies of these innocent children are the result of the most commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure — the D&E (dilation and evacuation) abortion, also known as a dismemberment abortion because of how it is carried out. In a D&E abortion, the abortionist dilates the woman’s cervix over a day or two. Then he uses a Sopher clamp to grasp parts of the baby’s body — the arms and legs — then tears them off and pulls them out of the womb. He then crushes the baby’s skull. Sometimes the baby comes out in pieces, and sometimes partially whole — but he or she is always violently killed, as were Ángel and Holly in the photos above.
Second-trimester abortions dismember babies and harm women
The brutality of the D&E abortion should be enough to create a public outcry that sees the procedure banned. In addition to the destruction that the procedure causes to preborn children, it is also very risky for the mother. According to the Charlotte Lozier Institute, “The risk of death from abortion increases with gestational age, and as Turok et al (2008) note, ‘these procedures are potentially more morbid because of the increased size of the fetal and placental tissue, increased blood volumes and a distended uterus.'”
Research published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, likewise found… the “risk of septic (life-threatening blood infection) abortions is markedly increased with advanced gestational age.”
Even abortionist Willie Parker wrote in his book, “Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice,” that there are increased risks including “a higher chance of perforating the uterine wall … or doing damage to an adjacent organ, and a higher risk of leaving some part of the pregnancy [fetal body parts] behind…”
The solution for decreasing the number of second-trimester abortions isn’t to increase the number of first-trimester abortions. The solution is to end abortion altogether.
