Chapter 18: Myth—Abortion Doesn’t Matter

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Myth—Abortion Doesn’t Matter

Week 38 — The fetus is about 14 inches from head to rump, may be

more than 20 inches overall, and may weigh from 6 1/2 to 10 pounds. The baby is full-term and ready to be born. Note: Week 38 is 40 weeks after the first day of the last menstrual period, which is the gestational age.

The above fetal development facts were found online accompanied by ultrasound images of each fetal stage. This above information is presented by an abortion clinic in Kansas to comply with K.S.A. 65-6701, known as the “Women’s Right to Know Act.” Women seeking abortion services in

Kansas are provided the above and other information at least 24 hours prior to an abortion procedure. This particular clinic claimed to be a “Specialist in 2nd Trimester Elective and 2nd/3rd Trimester Therapeutic Abortion Care” according to the information on their Internet site 9. Therefore, you can also find descriptions of all available abortion methods that are used online. You

should read this information and study the stated medical complications of abortion that clinics are now forced to disclose. If you do, it will educate you away from thinking that abortion is simply a benign procedure.

Having provided a woman with the above facts on fetal development, you might wonder, like I do, why any women would then still seek to have an abortion. You might also wonder why a clinic would specialize in late term abortions given the information they provide that the baby could live

outside the womb after 20 weeks. Here is a medical clinic that on one hand tells you your baby can live if born early and then tells you how they can kill it for you. That’s if you are a mother who wants to exercise a life choice!

Minnesota had a struggle passing a similar law, which was vetoed twice by a governor that felt it was a burden on women seeking to have an abortion. It took nine years to get a law to inform women of their health risks and fetal facts. How can the facts of fetal development, the abortion

methods used and the medical risks involved be a burden on women? Too many women operate off of ignorance when it comes to having an abortion. They need to get educated, if not for their baby’s sake, for their own health’s sake. Does your state have a “Women’s Right To Know Law?” If not, it

probably speaks very loud to the power of the abortion industry and its politics over your state legislators or your governor.