It's been a long time since I've gotten hate mail from the anti's. Was sorta thinking I wasn't loved anymore.

Grace555 sent me a photo and its description is here:

One of the most used pictures for a third trimester "abortion" is a picture of a severed head on OR rings- if the forceps securing its head over the jar are standard OR ring forceps, the ring is 1 x 0.5 centimeters, which would mean that the head is too small to be in its third trimester, yet one less developed would not have that much hair, says Dr. Andrew Ross, a Denver ob-gyn. "I strongly suspect that this picture is fake, and the information on the card certainly does not match what's shown," he adds. The second, and most obvious, fallacy lies within the description. It says that the pictured fetus was aborted in 1987 in Texas. However, that was the year that third trimester abortions were banned, rendering the alleged procedure altogether illegal.4 Not to mention that third trimester abortions are illegal to perform now- and when they were legal, accounted for only some 320-600, or under 4/100ths of 1% of all abortions.5 [link]

Cara over at The Curvature just blogged about these photos & their use in street demonstrations. And as I commented over there, I've seen these photos. So save yourself the bandwidth and time and don't send 'em to me. I'm not shocked by them and frankly I don't believe that they are a real depiction of abortion.

I'd rather look at the photos of the women who have died due to a lack of access to safe abortion.

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