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“The View” co-host Sara Haines claimed there’s “no such factor as folks having late-term abortions” throughout Wednesday’s episode of the daytime discuss present.
Haines would go on to declare that the GOP declare that the Democratic Get together helps abortions within the late stage of being pregnant is a “fable” designed to attain a political consequence. She in the end admitted that 1.3% of abortions are late-term abortions however employed that statistic to double down on her authentic level.
Haines additionally argued that late-term abortions are solely finished for “heartbreaking medical causes.”
On Wednesday, “The View” co-host Sarah Haines claimed that late-term abortions are a “fable” used to additional the pro-life political agenda.
The co-host’s statements got here up throughout a phase on remarks from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on a possible Republican invoice to enact a federal restrict on abortion previous 15 weeks of being pregnant. After all, the women of “The View” vehemently disagreed with Graham’s proposed laws, one thing he claimed would go to a vote if his celebration took a majority in Congress this November.
Although a few the co-hosts sarcastically thanked the Senator for energizing Democratic voters into displaying as much as cease pro-life Republicans from infringing on their proper to decide on.
Haines took goal at Graham’s invoice, starting with a criticism of it for leaving room for pink states and their extra stringent abortion restrictions, whereas protecting extra pro-choice states from permitting it previous 15 weeks.
“The way in which he’s written this, it should permit for the states which have stricter guidelines – these 6-week bans – they’ll say, ‘Oh nicely that’s fantastic.’ However then in case you’re extra liberal than that, he’s gonna say, ‘No, you gotta come again.’ So he additionally cherry-picked the way in which it applies,” Haines argued.
On Wednesday, the women of “The View” tore into Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., for his proposed federal abortion restriction.
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The co-host then asserted that Graham justified his pro-life invoice by the use of a political “fable.” She said, “He calls it a late-term, um, late-term abortion act – by the way in which 15 weeks for anybody that doesn’t know, is one week into your second trimester. And simply to clear up a often-referenced fable that’s used to get a sure political consequence, there isn’t a such factor as folks having late-term abortions.”
“Say that once more,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg instructed Haines, to re-emphasize the purpose. Extra emphatically, Haines declared, “There is no such thing as a such factor as folks having late-term abortions.” The viewers adopted up with applause.
Debunking the declare she simply made, she continued, “1.3! 1.3 % of abortions are carried out at higher than 21 weeks, and often for heartbreaking medical causes.” Once more, Whoopi needed it re-emphasized, so Haines repeated her claims. “That’s solely finished for heartbreaking medical causes.”
“I’ve but to see one scenario the place somebody decides that,” she continued, including, “That may be a fable being shopped round to get a sure political consequence.”
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Abortion-rights protesters collect exterior the Supreme Court docket in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court docket has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place practically 50 years, a call by its conservative majority to overturn the court docket’s landmark abortion instances.
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Earlier this yr, Fox Information Digital reported on NPR’s findings that “collectively 3% of abortions happen at 18 weeks of being pregnant and past.” NPR, like Haines, was trying to categorize late-term abortions as a negligible a part of the abortion debate.
Although as one distinguished Twitter account famous on the time, “However the cause they solely present % is as a result of 10% of the 800k yearly abortions is 80K! For context: There are solely 12K firearm homicides within the US annually. So 80K principally elective abortions after the primary trimester may be thought of a moderately important quantity for many individuals.”
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Haines continued along with her figures, stating, “And 91 % of all abortions are carried out within the first trimester.” She then said, “So till we’re all clear on the knowledge and information, we shouldn’t be toying with this as a result of it’s being falsely shopped round.”
