"Abortion is NEVER medically necessary," says the caption of a video that Live Action, an anti-abortion group, posted on June 26, 2022 on Facebook.
The post followed the US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion a right nationwide. Since then, several states have banned abortion -- and nearly half are expected to do so.
The clip shared in the post, which accumulated more than 481,000 views, shows Kendra Kolb, a physician specializing in neonatal and perinatal medicine and pediatrics, saying: "It is often said that abortion is sometimes medically necessary to protect the life or the health of the mother. This is simply not true."
"There is no medical reason why the life of the child must be directly and intentionally ended with an abortion procedure," Kolb continues.
Later in the video, she cites several health conditions and medical complications -- including ectopic pregnancies, when the egg implants outside of the uterus, most often in the fallopian tube -- in which she says the end of a pregnancy is not an "abortion."
However, medical experts told AFP the claim is a distorted, inaccurate understanding of what abortion is -- and it does not reflect the scientific consensus that abortion is sometimes medically necessary.
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