third+trimester

I'll be working on this page in upcoming days. I'll start with an edited blog post and tweak it as it applies to the Gosnell case.

This is a topic I've blogged a lot about, so for your convenience I'll pull together a retrospective of those posts. I'll also bring in posts about Tiller. They're grouped by topic, with posts in multiple categories if they fit in more than one.

There are three major categories of third trimester abortions -- accidental, criminal, and quasi-legal.


 * Accidental third-trimester abortions** take place when the doctor misdiagnosed gestational age and aborted a third-trimester baby, thinking it was younger.


 * Criminal third-trimester abortions**, such as the ones Kermit Gosnell perpetrated, are performed in brazen violation of the law.


 * Quasi-legal third trimester abortions** technically ought to be illegal, but because of the wording of Roe vs. Wade and its companion decision, Doe vs. Bolton, it's virtually impossible to ban abortions even in the third trimester. Roe and Doe require a legal loophole for "health." Thus, an abortionist who wishes to be known for performing third-trimester abortions (so as to attract a clientele) goes through the motions of justifying it legally. But since there is no legitimate reason to perform an abortion rather than deliver a live baby, the legality of these abortions is, by definition, a fiction. These were the type of abortions George Tiller was perpetrating at his infamous late-term abortion mill in Kansas.


 * Accidental third-trimester abortions**

GEORGE TILLER (The best know practitioner of "legal" third trimester abortions):

> > REASONS OSTENSIBLY LEGAL THIRD TRIMESTER ABORTIONS ARE DONE: > > WHO DOES OSTENSIBLY LEGAL LATE ABORTIONS: > > REJECTING LATE ABORTION: > > HOW LATE ABORTIONS ARE DONE: > > LIVE BIRTHS FROM LATE ABORTIONS: > > MISCELLANEOUS LATE ABORTION LINKS: > >
 * [|What proportion of Tiller's late abortions were for fetal indications?]: Tiller himself indicated that the number was 8%.
 * [|An analysis of those "medically necessary" Tiller abortions]: Dr. Paul McHugh is interviewed about his review of Tiller's patient files.
 * [|The measure of a "hero"]: An overview of Tiller and the late abortions he did.
 * [|The Death They Didn't Mourn]: Christin Gilbert, mentally disabled teenager, loses her life thanks to Tiller's bad habits and worthless staff.
 * [|Which is safer for the mother?]: A side by side comparison of late abortion versus obstetric care for pregnancy complications
 * [|Which is safer for the mother?]: A side by side comparison of a Tiller late abortion versus obstetric care for pregnancy complications
 * [|Tiller's Defense: Larry Said I Could]: A look at what Tiller admitted on the stand in his trial
 * [|Tiller Trial: The Plot Thickens]: Words from Kristin Neuhaus, the disgraced erstwhile abortionist who rubber-stamped post-viability abortions for Tiller
 * [|Tiller Getting Favorable Jury]: Jurors were dismissed for being "too prolife" but not for being "too prochoice"
 * [|A Credible Claim?]: A complaint filed by a Tiller patient
 * [|One That Got Away]: A child that had been scheduled to die at Tiller's facility returned to plead for other children's lives
 * [| Them mean old prolifers help woman avoid unwanted abortion]: Prolifers brought Tiller patient next door for real help
 * [|Read Complaints Against Tiller and Associates]: Including a summary of the 30 illegal abortion charges based on his own patient records
 * [|Why are women having third trimester abortions?]: Examples of women facing pressure from health care professionals to abort when the women themselves don't want to.
 * [|An analysis of those "medically necessary" Tiller abortions]: Dr. Paul McHugh is interviewed about his review of Tiller's patient files.
 * [|Examples of late abortions]: Mostly fatal cases from my files.
 * [|What proportion of Tiller's late abortions were for fetal indications?]: Tiller himself indicated that the number was 8%.
 * [|Obama, McCain, and "Health"]: A look at the real "health" reasons behind most late abortions
 * [|Post Viability Abortions in Your State]: A look at who is advertising late abortions online
 * [|Planned Parenthood Admits to Live Births]: Which means they're doing post-viability abortions
 * [|1988: NAF Member Kills Teen]: Note Karpen's response to the fact that the prolifers outside were helping patients who'd changed their minds
 * [|Accountability at Last for Pendergraft?]: Florida's notorious late term abortionist faced criminal charges
 * [|Parents Lied to Save Preemie]: With list of abortion mills that would gladly have killed a baby that age or older
 * [|New (to me) Article on Midtown Hospital]: An infamous Georgia abortion hospital with a history of routinely performing illegal third trimester abortions
 * [|Excellent article, sure to send the kind and loving abortion fanatics into an apoplexy]: Link to an article about women who rejected abortion after a grave prenatal diagnosis
 * [|Why are women having third trimester abortions?]: Examples of women facing pressure from health care professionals to abort when the women themselves don't want to.
 * [|93 Days of Love]: Link to the story of Baby Faith, a little girl with anencephaly
 * [|One That Got Away]: A child that had been scheduled to die at Tiller's facility returned to plead for other children's lives
 * [| Them mean old prolifers help woman avoid unwanted abortion]: Prolifers brought Tiller patient next door for real help
 * [|Joyful Anniversary for a Happy Mommy]: It wasn't the end of the world after all
 * [|Parents had to Fight for Baby's Short Life]: The gymnastics of avoiding an unwanted abortion
 * [|Which is safer for the mother?]: A side by side comparison of a Tiller late abortion versus obstetric care for pregnancy complications
 * [|Applauding a Child's Death]: Audio from Dr. Martin Haskell's presentation on how he does late abortions, with video by Priests for Life illustrating what he's describing
 * [|Tools of the Trade: Sopher Forceps]: A description of a specialized tool for taking apart fetuses in the second and third trimester, and how that tool is used by guys including Tiller abortionist LeRoy Carhart
 * [|Too Cruel for Killers, Just Right for Babies]: A drug used by many late term abortionists is considered "cruel and unusual" when used to execute murderers
 * [|Just For Comparison]: VERY GRAPHIC, with photos of a living preemie, then aborted babies of similar size
 * [|This Baby Won't Stop Breathing]: William Waddill strangles a baby in front of multiple witnesses -- then beats the murder rap
 * [|Why the Sudden Interest]: The killing of a liveborn infant after an abortion seizes public attention
 * [|Planned Parenthood Admits to Live Births]:
 * [|A Fetus With Attitude]: A survivor of a late abortion speaks out
 * [|A Question About Born Alive Babies and Criminal Charges]: Why aren't these cases always prosecuted?
 * [|Another Born-Alive Baby]: A baby was injured for life by a post-viability abortion attempt
 * [|Another Fetus With Attitude]: Melissa Ohden tells her story
 * [|More Born Alive Babies]: Links to stories about abortion survivors
 * [|More Born Alive Babies and their Fates]: Further examples of babies that survived attempts to kill them in-utero
 * [|Obama and the Born Alive Babies]: A graphic look at live births following late abortions
 * [|More on Baby Rowan]: His mother's story
 * [|Shanda's Abortion Nightmare]: Sent to the hospital in a car with her fetus hanging out of her vagina
 * [|Data Collection Suggestion]: How to fill in the gaps in our knowledge about post-viability abortions
 * [|Can We Really? Tell Me the Truth]: Reflecting on a Dostoyevsky quote and third-trimester abortions
 * [|Obama Comments, I Respond]: A response to Obama's contention that late term abortionists simply never make mistakes
 * [|Third Trimester Abortions and the Law]: Where they're legal and for what reasons
 * [|Answering a Question]: A reminder that Martin Haskell made a video of himself doing a partial-birth (D&X) abortion, and that Mark Crutcher will pay any disgruntled abortion clinic employee big bucks if they fork one over
 * [|Where Does Obama Say He Supports 3rd Trimester Abortion?]: At Planned Parenthood
 * [|Jill Stanek and FactCheck's Faulty "Facts"]: Was FactCheck ill-informed, or deliberately misleading>
 * [|Search: Abortions for Health Reasons]: Explores how ill-defined "health" is in statistics about why women abort
 * [|Obama, Babies, and the Benefit of the Doubt]: A look at Obama's assumption that late term abortionists never make mistakes
 * [|Who Needs Hope When You Have These Guys?]: Abortion for "fetal indications" -- shutting the door on all hope
 * [|One That Got Away]: A child that had been scheduled to die at Tiller's facility returned to plead for other children's lives">Astonishing new levels of abortion advocacy cluelessness