No! When a child dies in the womb, there are a number of different  procedures which can be performed, none of them being an abortion for the sole fact that an abortion intentionally ends the life of the unborn child.

It does not take a medical professional to tell you that the sole purpose of an abortion is the intentional ending of the life of the unborn child. This being said, how can an abortion take place if the baby inside the mother has already died? The answer is it cannot because you cannot have an abortion without the life of an unborn child to end. You might think that most Repeal the 8th activist would know that to have an abortion you need a living unborn child to terminate, yet clearly these pro-choice advocates don’t otherwise they would not be making the false statements such as the subject of this lie. 

There are many situations in which an unborn child dies in the womb, or as medical professionals call it, intrauterine deaths. Medical professionals will also tell you that there are a number of ways to handle this situation, none of them constituting an abortion, again, for the reason that there is no foetus’ life to be end.

Thus, the 8th Amendment has no position in the argument of unborn children who have sadly died in utero.

When someone dies, their right to life dies with them, therefore the right to life of the foetus is made void when that life has ended already in the womb.

This is a very unfortunate and heartbreaking thing for mothers and family members to deal with, and it affects around one in every 200 pregnancies.[1]

It is clear that the Repeal the 8th Campaign lies to the public about this issue because they believe that carrying around a child with a diagnosed foetal abnormality means that that child is dead or as good as dead. How incredibly inaccurate that is. A diagnosis is not a certainty, if a child actually dies in the womb, then it is certain that they did not make it to birth. Aborting a child before there is absolute certainty that they did not survive past birth, leaves no room for error on behalf of the doctors who diagnosed the child.   

 

 

[1] https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/patients/patient-information-leaflets/pregnancy/pi-when-your-baby-dies-before-birth.pdf