House Rep. defends abortion with ‘pregnancy-termination’ story: ‘I lost a baby’

Tim Schlittner, Rep. Jackie Speier's spokesman, told CNN today that the congresswoman did not consider the event the referenced on the House floor to have been an 'abortion,' but indicated that the pregnancy did not end spontaneously. "She did not consider it an abortion, it was a miscarriage," Schlittner said. "The fetus moved to where it could not survive, so they had to end the pregnancy."

"Chris Smith of New Jersey was talking about a procedure that's known as D and E, and that is the procedure that the congresswoman had," he noted. CNN reporter Kevin Litipak concluded that, "contrary to some news reports, Speiers did not have an abortion."

However, a Huffington Post article by Elise Foley late Friday afternoon reported that, "Speier underwent an abortion in her early 40s, while she was serving in the California State Assembly. The procedure used to terminate the pregnancy was the same type that Smith's book described."

"This was a wanted pregnancy, it was the second miscarriage I had had," Speier told HuffPost. "What they express doesn't come close to the experience that a woman goes through when she is losing a baby or when a pregnancy is terminated. It's a painful, gut-wrenching loss."

The headline on the article, originally entitled "Jackie Speier on sharing her emergency-abortion story: 'It just overwhelmed me,'" later changed to "pregnancy-termination story," omitting the abortion reference.  LifeSiteNews

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