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CV NEWS FEED // A Washington Post columnist recently spotlighted a Colorado late-term abortionist’s record to counter Kamala Harris’ recent claim that “Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion.”
Kathleen Parker noted in her opinion piece that Harris’ remarks about late term abortions were made during the September 10 presidential debate.
“Democrats bent on restoring abortion rights would have us believe that no state would allow a fully formed baby to be aborted, and it is rational to believe this,” Parker argued.
However, Harris’ remarks during the debate did not address the fact that nine states and Washington D.C. do not have gestational limits for abortions, Parker pointed out.
“We don’t like to hear about these procedures because they complicate a preferred understanding that late-term abortions never happen unless some genetic or other physical anomaly would condemn the child to a life of misery and/or early death,” she wrote.
As a counter-example, Parker highlighted a late-term abortionist in Boulder, Colorado.
Dr. Warren Hern, who has run an abortion clinic since 1975, “performs abortions up to 32 weeks and sometimes later,” according to Parker.
“Hern estimated that about half of his later-term abortions are of healthy babies,” she wrote, citing a 2023 Atlantic article that profiled Hern. According to Parker, Hern has also aborted at least two later-term babies because they were not the sex the mother was hoping for.
She described Hern as “a physician who would destroy a fully formed baby after first stopping its heart with a needle.” Hern’s company’s own webpage about third trimester abortion describes how a needle injection is used to stop the heartbeat of an unborn baby in the third trimester as a part of the abortion process.
Parker later concluded, directing her focus back to Harris, “late-term abortions are happening and not just for anomalies or medical reasons.”
