- Report by Priests for Life, the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia.
In another undercover call released today, Priests for Life and Abortion Free New Mexico underscore that Ohio is yet another state that will abort babies at 21 weeks and six days even if both baby and mother are perfectly healthy.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE UNDERCOVER CALL
In a joint statement, Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, and Tara Shaver, the pro-life activist making the calls, said:
“In Ohio, late-term abortions are legal and are being performed on healthy mothers carrying healthy babies up to 21 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy. The state of Ohio has recently made a great stride to protect babies with Down syndrome from abortion but there is still work to be done to protect healthy babies after 20 weeks of pregnancy who are routinely being aborted.
“We urge Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown to support the federal Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to ensure that babies who feel pain receive protection from barbaric and unnecessary late term abortions.”
The federal bill is expected to come up for a vote in mid-January and would ban abortion after 20 weeks.
Father Pavone noted that Sen. Brown, who is up for re-election in 2018, has a 100 percent rating from Planned Parenthood, voted against a partial-birth abortion ban in 2000 and more recently, voted against even considering the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in 2015.
Today’s call is part of an ongoing series that Priests for Life and Abortion Free New Mexico are working on to demonstrate to Americans that late-term abortion is legal and does not require dire circumstances for the baby or the mother. As the calls reveal, healthy babies are aborted at least up until 32 weeks.
- To hear all the calls, go to PriestsForLife.org/LateTermAbortion.
- To find out how to contact your senator about supporting the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, go to StopAbortionNow.org
