These Photos of Early Pregnancy Tissue Challenge Commons Myths About Abortion
Do you actually know what tissue from a terminated pregnancy looks like? A new op-ed from The New York Times is proving once and for all that abortions look nothing like what we’ve been told.
In honor of what should have been Roe v. Wade‘s 50th anniversary, primary care doctors Erika Bliss, Joan Fleischman, and Michele Gomez — co-founders of the organization MYAbortion Network and abortion providers themselves — authored an op-ed with real images of early pregnancy tissue. The photos depict fragments of a patient’s uterine lining and gestational sacs from five through nine weeks of pregnancy, when the vast majority of abortions in America are performed.
Surprise, surprise: Contrary to what anti-abortion activists would have you believe, the tissue does not resemble a human fetus at all.
In the piece, Fleischman, a New York-based provider, recalled showing one of her patients, Jewel, the early pregnancy tissue from her procedure. “I thought you were going to bring in something that was shaped like a little fetus or something, and it was not that at all,” Jewel told her.
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