A new Colorado abortion clinic offers third trimester abortions “for any reason.”
Reproductive Health, Inclusive Care, Support and Empowerment (RISE) Collective describes itself as “one of only a handful of clinics in the country trained to provide abortion care in all trimesters.”
The Boulder-based clinic began providing “later abortion care” — a euphemism for abortions in the third trimester — on October 14.
Per its promo video, RISE Collective will perform these procedures on any mother who asks.
We believe that any reason you have for needing abortion care is yours — and it is the right one.
The new clinic is founded and staffed by former employees of the Boulder Abortion Clinic, an infamous late term abortion vendor run by Warren Hearn that closed in May.
The clinicians began raising money for RISE Collective as soon as the Boulder facility closed down, Alicia Moreno, the executive director of RISE and former chief operating officer of the defunct Boulder clinic, told 9News.
“[Boulder Abortion Clinic] was one of the five clinics in the country that worked in this space,” Moreno explained. “So going down to four was a big hit to patient access that’s already really strained.”
By “this space,” Moreno means ending the lives of babies in the third trimester, which begins at 28 weeks gestation. Babies at this age have between an 80- and 90% chance of surviving outside the womb.
A third trimester or abortion involves injecting a preborn baby with toxic chemicals. Once the child dies, the mother is medically induced into giving birth.
Under its “For Patients” tab, RISE Collective’s website claims to offer “detailed information” about this brutal process.
As of November 4, only the sections on procedural abortion, medication abortion and “Recovery, Aftercare & Resources” are all blank. .
Seven states — Alaska, Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont — and the District of Columbia do not limit when citizens can get abortions. RISE Collective is one of eight clinics performing third trimester abortions in these states, Concerned Women for America reports. A ninth plans to open its doors in New Jersey this spring.
Every one of these outfits describe third trimester abortions as “healthcare.” But procedural abortions, which can take up to five days, do not protect mothers’ physical health.
“A four-day procedure intended solely to kill and expel a child can’t save a woman suffering from sudden preeclampsia, infection or hemorrhage,” pro-life activist Hannah Lape writes.
“Live birth is the safest, fastest and most promising course of care in life-threatening scenarios … [and] preserves the lives of both patients in the pregnancy: mom and baby.”
RISE Collective deploys a careful combination of deception and obfuscation to soften the reality: it makes money from giving fully formed babies lethal injections.
Murder is illegal. Third trimester abortion should be, too — no exceptions.
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