Planned Parenthood’s depictions of abortion are far from reality
Planned Parenthood would like for you to think an abortion is a routine medical operation. The organization, which commits more than 320,000 abortions per year, prefers to use terms that are as emotionally detached as possible, like “fetus” instead of “baby” and “the pregnancy” instead of “preborn child.”
These aren’t efforts in accordance with a desire to be medically accurate. A recent Planned Parenthood video illustrates as much by depicting an abortion as nothing more than removing a tiny blue dot from a mother’s uterus. The Planned Parenthood video states, “During an in-clinic abortion, a doctor, a nurse, or other healthcare provider empties your uterus using gentle suction and sometimes other medical tools.”
Another video from Planned Parenthood shows the abortion pill procedure – but it is also medically inaccurate. The video instructs its viewers to first take mifepristone, saying, “it stops your pregnancy from developing.” It then instructs its viewers to take misoprostol one to two days later, claiming that the drug “causes cramping and bleeding that empties your uterus.” Another Live Action video featuring Dr. Levatino details what really happens during this type of abortion:
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