Elective terminations in the third trimester are virtually always cases of wanted pregnancies with tragic, lethal fetal complications. This narrative unnecessarily divides and abruptly halts important conversations while pouring salt in the wounds of my grieving patients. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1313445293912920064

If you vote for making pregnancy termination illegal, especially after 24 weeks, what you’ve voted for is removing a person’s right to take their terminally ill fetus off life support. Now parents will be forced to watch their baby with no lungs gasp for air & suffocate at birth.

Third trimester abortion is never elective. It is heart wrenching, complicated, and something I would not wish on anyone. These patients re-experience their trauma every time you politicize the heartbreaking decision they were forced to make.