What Doctors Want Politicians To Know About Abortion

At the third and final debate last Wednesday, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump drew a lot of criticism for his medically inaccurate and emotionally charged description of late-term abortion. Trump described a procedure that rips the baby out of the womb in the ninth month of pregnancy — a shocking characterization that medical experts have denounced and refuted as a gross distortion of the procedure. Here’s what he said: If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month you can take baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby. Now, you can say that that is okay and Hillary can say that that is okay, but it’s not okay with me. Because based on what she is saying and based on where she’s going and where she’s been, you can take baby and rip the baby out of the womb. In the ninth month. On the final day. And that’s not acceptable. In a blog post, obstetrician/gynecologist Dr. Jennifer Gunter linked Trump’s statements to a general medical literacy problem in politics, particularly among those who wish to curb women’s access to safe abortions. This got us thinking: What do more doctors and researchers who care for women wish policymakers knew about abortion? We surveyed OB/GYNs, family planning doctors and reproductive researchers to ask what they wish politicians would understand about a person’s decision to end a pregnancy. Read on to learn ...
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