Life Defenders - The Truth about Late-term Abortion

Love the show? Text us your feedback! “Late-term abortion isn’t even a thing.” That claim gets repeated so often it can start to sound like settled fact, but we don’t think the public can afford comforting myths. This week we sit down with Dr. Kathy Altman, a retired board-certified OBGYN and associate scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute, to sort out what people mean by “late-term,” what the data suggests about abortions later in pregnancy, and why “rare” can still mean thousands of lives every year.  Dr. Altman also tells her personal story, including performing abortions earlier in her career, what she saw in clinical practice, and the moments that forced her to re-examine the humanity of the unborn. We discuss how language can sanitize violence, why viability keeps shifting with medical technology, and why the same medications used for labor induction, including mifepristone and misoprostol, raise hard questions when the goal changes from delivery and care to ending a life.  We also dig into the legal and cultural side: laws that allow abortion up to birth, the debate around born-alive protections, and why silence in churches can leave people with their moral compass set by politics and pop culture. If you want an unfiltered conversation about late-term abortion, fetal development, women’s health, and what a pro-family culture could look like, this one is for you.  Subscribe for more conversations like this, share the episode with someone who avoids the topic, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.Support the show