An abortion is not an execution, Mr. President | By Theresa Brown, a hospice nurse and author, for CNNOpinion
Theresa Brown is a hospice nurse and author of"The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives." The views expressed here are hers. Read more opinion on CNN.
President Trump recently said that babies who survive so-called late-term abortions sometimes die afterward as a result of bedside executions. This lie is so outrageous and horrific that the only good response to it is to state that such things never happen. Because they don't. Physicians practicing in the United States do not kill babies. The politics of why our President would make this claim seem obvious.
Theresa BrownFirst, though, some facts: According to the CDC, 1.3% of abortions occur on or after 21 weeks of pregnancy. In 2015, the year for which the most current statistics are available, that means approximately 8,000 pregnancies were ended in the third trimester of pregnancy.
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