As many states across the nation restrict access to abortion, pro-abortion activists are using the internet to coach women and minors on how to dodge new laws.
A website called Abortion Finder provides a guide on getting to states that allow the practice, but critics call the website “radical” and “disgusting.”
“I think the best comparison is a website that said that you could fly to Asia to have sexual relations with underage children and explained how to do it,”,” Dr. Greg Marchand, an obstetrician and gynecologist, told The Epoch Times.
Abortion Finder operates a resource that instructs women on how to get abortions as late as 40 weeks into their pregnancy. A baby is considered full-term when born at 39–41 weeks gestation. Most babies are born at around 40 weeks.
“We made Abortion Finder because we saw firsthand that for too many people, the process of figuring out where and how to get an abortion is confusing, complicated, and overwhelming,” the website reads. “We want it to be easier.”
The website also offers information on how children 15 and younger can hide getting an abortion from their parents.
“If you travel to a state that requires people under 18 to involve a parent or guardian to get an abortion and you need to avoid that, you could see if you qualify for a judicial bypass,” the site advises.
Abortion Finder also advises people how to buy “abortion pills for future use.”
‘Radical’ and ‘Disgusting’
Abortion Finder’s work is “a little bit radical” and “a little bit disgusting,” Marchand said.“While it’s not technically illegal to spread this information, it is very cruel and disgusting to be talking about it and to have an interest in promoting these horrible late-term abortions to happen more often.”
The fact that some abortionists encourage the abortion of viable babies shows they are incredibly comfortable with choosing death over life, he said.
“I think that some of the people on the side of the abortion rights argument would argue that it should be okay to kill your child up until a little bit after birth,” Marchand said.
Pro-Abortion, Not Pro-Choice
Abortion advocates argue that the procedure gives women a choice about motherhood.But new statistics suggest that “abortion culture” pressures women into choosing things they don’t want.
The survey found that 43 percent of women accepted getting an abortion, but felt doing so was inconsistent with their values. An additional 24 percent said they didn’t want an abortion or were coerced into getting one.
And 60 percent of the women surveyed said they would have preferred to have a child, instead of an abortion. But they felt they needed more support and financial security.
“The one-third of women for whom abortion is wanted and consistent with their values and preferences are most likely over-represented in studies initiated at abortion clinics,” researchers concluded.
The only women who said they benefited from their abortions were women who wanted them in the first place, the survey results showed.
And 67 percent of women who got abortions they didn’t want, told researchers that their mental health, stress, and negative emotions all got worse after the procedure.
These women with regrets also were less likely to participate in surveys initiated by abortion clinics, the Cureus survey showed.
Cureus selected survey participants using a survey prompt that didn’t reveal the topic, so as to avoid women with strong feelings for or against abortion.
In 2015, the pro-abortion group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) reported that 99 percent of women who had undergone an abortion three years earlier reported it had been the right decision, Cureus researchers noted.
Roe Ends, But Abortion Doesn’t
Some statistics suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 has barely reduced overall abortion numbers.The report suggests that changes triggered by the Dobbs v. Jackson decision of the Supreme Court, which sent abortion decisions back to states, have caused the number of U.S. abortions to drop from 987,240 per year to 924,876.
But the true number of abortions performed remains a source of debate.
Certainly, abortion providers in pro-abortion states may benefit from laws restricting the procedure because they now draw clients from in pro-life states.
New laws restricting abortion access have been passed. Pro-abortion activists have filed lawsuits challenging those restrictions. Judges have issues injunctions blocking enforcement of new laws.
Old laws restricting abortion were triggered by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. And some states have passed new laws protecting abortion access.
Allowing abortions without parental knowledge can provide cover to hide child sex-trafficking and sexual abuse, state Rep. Ed Diehl, a Republican, told The Epoch Times.
“Let’s say you’re a young girl—you’re being trafficked and sexually abused [and] your abuser brings you in and tells you, ‘Tell them exactly what they want to hear, [that] my 14-year-old boyfriend got me pregnant,’” he said.
“And they go in, and they have an abortion.”
