A doctor’s story shows ‘late-term’ abortion access is politically charged – but crucial
- Written by Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
In the United States, around 1% of abortions occur after 21 weeks. Yet these abortions are intensely vilified. Recall Donald Trump’s graphic and falseclaim that US laws allowed doctors to “rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month, on the final day”.
For two decades, Dr Shelley Sella provided abortion care in the US into the...
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