Misleading late-term abortion claim circulated; Alberta government won't comment
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In its latest handout, the group Prolife Alberta writes "late-term abortions are happening in Alberta, often resulting in fully born babies being left to die."
A popular, misleading claim about late-term abortions has made its way to the province.
In its latest handout, the group Prolife Alberta writes "late-term abortions are happening in Alberta, often resulting in fully born babies being left to die."
The scary suggestion parrots a social conservative claim currently running rampant in Republican circles as the U.S. election heats up.
But health professionals and medical ethicists call it intentionally misleading.
Late-term abortions tend to occur almost exclusively when a fetus has developed an unsurvivable condition, or when going ahead with a pregnancy poses a fatal risk to the mother.
Often, they're the result of parents seeing through a wanted pregnancy, having serious health problems and then just wanting to hold their dying babies for a few moments after birth.
The stat referenced by Prolife Alberta is accurately attributed to the Canadian Institute for Health Information but has nothing to do with mapped-out pregnancy termination plans, according to the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada.
