By A major abortion group is calling for abortion up until birth, according to a recent statement released on the anniversary of the Dobbs decision.
The National Abortion Federation, a professional association of abortion providers, publicly updated their policy to support abortion throughout all stages of pregnancy earlier this week.
The group updated the policy to mark the anniversary of the Dobbs decision that returned abortion legislation to the states — the decision that enabled more states to enact laws that protect unborn children.
“This moment demands a new era of abortion advocacy, one that understands viability and gestational limits are common and equally harmful forms of abortion bans,” read a joint statement from the National Abortion Federation and Physicians for Reproductive Health. “When laws regulating abortion care include arbitrary legal limits, politicians and police are invited into exam rooms, advancing control over pregnant people — forcing them to stay pregnant and finding ways to punish them when they don’t.”
The policy opposes laws that are common in pro-life states, like viability-based and gestation-based laws.
The group’s policy “supports abortion care and access throughout pregnancy and opposes legislation and policies that interfere with that care, including viability limits and gestation-based bans.”
Live Action spokesman Noah Brandt condemned the policy for dehumanizing unborn babies.
“The National Abortion Federation is a radical organization dedicated solely to dehumanizing every child in the womb, pushing for abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, and advocating for the destruction of children nationwide,” Brandt told EWTN News.
“By formally rejecting any legal limits on abortion at any stage of pregnancy for any reason, the NAF only further exposes their intent, justifying the violent killing of viable babies which can include excruciating dismemberment or a lethal injection into the baby’s heart,” he indicated.
“Opposing any limit to abortion denies basic biology and the humanity of preborn children from the moment of conception,” Brandt added. “As pro-life Americans, we must focus on life-affirming policies that protect both mother and child by rejecting abortion at any stage and offering true help through sacrifice, service, and prayer,” he emphasized.
“The National Abortion Federation’s agenda for abortion with no limits has become the de facto position of the Democratic Party,” Kelsey Pritchard, communications director for SBA Pro-Life America told EWTN News. “The U.S. is 1 of 8 countries in the world that allows all-trimester abortion and we’re on that list with Communist China and Vietnam. Fifteen states allow abortion at any point, including in the seventh, eighth and ninth months of pregnancy.”
Pritchard noted that “several abortion businesses openly advertise third-trimester abortions,” including ones in Colorado, Maryland, and Illinois. “This isn’t just hypothetical: second and third trimester abortions are happening in the blue states,” Pritchard said. “Babies who can feel pain and survive outside of the womb are being killed.”
Meanwhile, Dr. Christina Francis, head of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, observed: “There is never a need to intentionally end the life of our preborn patient at any point in pregnancy.”
“Claims that induced abortion is ‘necessary’ later in pregnancy (at a point when a baby can survive outside of the mother) are not only ignorant of medical facts, but theyʼre also dangerous,” Francis said. “Abortions later in pregnancy are dangerous for women, increasing their risk of immediate complications, adverse mental health outcomes, preterm birth in future pregnancies, and even death.”
“If a mother is facing a serious pregnancy complication, she can be delivered, and both patients can receive the care they need and deserve,” Francis said.
Pritchard called for action, noting that “only 10% of voters support abortion up until birth.”
“This week, we celebrated the overturn of Roe v. Wade, which ended a dark period in our nation’s history, saving innocent lives by allowing the people and their elected representatives to protect precious preborn children,” Brandt said.
“In America’s 250th year, the pro-life movement and the GOP must take bold new steps to make progress toward a national minimum standard to protect unborn children in every state,” Pritchard said.
This type of law, she said, would “be the ‘floor’ that establishes a limit for the whole country – including in blue states – and allows pro-life states to continue to aggressively protect life even further.”
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Overturning Roe put us back in pre-1973 chaos and has resulted in more abortions.
I do wish that the Supreme Court had ended abortion once and for all back in 2022.
However, overturning Roe vs keeping the current situation going was better than nothing.
So, what’s your solution?
Logically, this ghastly policy will also justify killing babies already born at the whim of the parents. Peter Singer was arguing for that decades ago.
Peter Singer was an animal rights advocate in Australia. When he came to our shores he determined that humans should be subject to similar life and death principles for animals – the object to avoid suffering.
Eventually, he taught the same animal rights principles for humans at Princeton and was elevated director of their ethics department. Philosopher Peter Unger at NYU gushed ‘Singer is the greatest ethicist on the planet’.
Dobbs was decided in 2022, and that’s the CDC’s last reporting year, This is the “selected reporting areas” statistic.
2021 625,978
2022 613,383
What is your source?
@PFR
CDC only counts surgical abortion.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38526865/
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5863103/medication-abortion-telehealth-post-roe-dobbs
Sandra Miesel above (7:50 p.m.) – Thanks for your always-informative comments. Ah, yes. Peter Singer. That’s where we’ve gotten to.
To the NAF policy wonks, splitting pregnancy into arbitrary “trimesters” makes no sense, but it does make sense to arbitrarily “draw-and-quarter” an unborn child.
The recent NAF word game completes a late-term gestation period. A comparison table of modern-day euphemisms:
“I know of not a single case where anyone came out of the chambers alive” (Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess on the destructive capacity of Zyklon B gas, 1947) and “It never ever results in live births” (an experienced abortionist on the merits of dissection and extraction, 1981);
“the subjects were forced to undergo death-dealing experiments ‘without receiving anesthetics’” (Dachau freezing experiments, 1942) and “the fetuses are fully alive when we cut their heads off, but anesthetics are definitely unnecessary” (Fetal researcher Dr. Martti Kekomaki, 1980);
“no criticism was raised” (conference of German physicians to the Ravenbrueck death camp sulfanilamide experiments, Berlin, May 1943) and “no one ever raised an eyebrow” (meeting of American pediatricians to an experiment involving beheading of aborted babies, San Francisco, 1973);
“what should we do with this garbage” (Treblinka, 1942) and “an aborted baby is just garbage” (fetal researcher Dr. Martti Kekomaki, 1980).
In Mein Kampf (1925) Adolf Hitler referred to Jews as “a parasite in the body of other peoples”; fifty years later, the year of Roe v. Wade, a radical feminist group branded the unborn as “a parasite within the mother’s body” (an early edition of “Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women”).
(Source: “The Third Reich and Contemporary Society,” in William Brennan, “The Abortion Holocaust: Today’s Final Solution”, St. Louis: Landmark Press, 1983, selections from Chart 6, and 100-102.)
SUMMARY: The Aztecs are winning.
“To the NAF policy wonks, splitting pregnancy into arbitrary “trimesters” makes no sense, but it does make sense to arbitrarily “draw-and-quarter” an unborn child.”
Absolutely true.
I used to be a Medicaid (MA) auditor, and one of the programs I audited was one that was designed to encourage early pre-natal care and intervention by the managed care organizations (MCOs) that provided maternity and obstetric care to MA eligible women and girls. As a result, it provided for full payment for a live birth to any pregnancy that lasted past the “first trimester”.
Except the geniuses in what used to be called the Department of Public Welfare (before millions of dollars were spent in 2014 to rebrand it as “Department of Human Services” to avoid “stigmatizing” the recipients) never looked to see if that was an authentic medical judgment with routine documentation in clinical notes when they drafted a 200 page request for proposal that governed the operation of the program.
This was relatively a new program at the time and we rapidly found out through inquiries with the auditees’ medical staff that “first trimester” is a popular colloquialism, not a medical term with fixed criteria. Not only that, but in the case of a “spontaneous abortion” (miscarriage) there wasn’t a routine estimate of the term of the pregnancy, because of the lack of information. The ONLY time there was any documentation of gestational duration was when the doctor had good reason to believe the pregnancy terminated after 16 weeks-and that was generally when the woman was alert enough to her condition to seek OB/GYN care early, which was noticeably absent in the MA eligible population.