Pro-Life Agenda Would Increase Late Term Abortions

News and Opinion for Democrats Against Bush -- Part II

Pro-Life Agenda Would Increase Late Term Abortions

"While the pro-choice movement has been fighting to protect women from the need to have abortions later in pregnancy, the other side has been vigorously engaged in a battle that will inevitably make them more common.."

New York Times

Frank Talk About Abortion

EDITORIAL, November 30, 2003

This excellent article may be purchased from the New York Times archives at-- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70610F6395E0C738FDDA80994DB404482

It has been reprinted with permission on the Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic website-- http://www.pphp.org/takeaction/news/20031208123911-16636.asp

Excerpt--

It is the opponents of reproductive freedom, not pro-choice advocates, who pose an obstacle to achieving the humane goal of reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies and second-trimester abortions.

Through political harassment and the imposition of various restrictions, they have made it increasingly difficult for women who are young or poor, or who live in rural areas, to obtain access to abortion services in the first weeks of pregnancy, thereby needlessly delaying procedures until the fetus is further along.

While the pro-choice movement has been fighting to protect women from the need to have abortions later in pregnancy, the other side has been vigorously engaged in a battle that will inevitably make them more common ...

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