It is a commonly held and oft-expressed opinion that abortions of babies after 20 weeks occur only when the unborn baby has been diagnosed with a fatal condition or a severe disability, or when continuing the pregnancy poses a severe threat to the mother’s life.
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It is nearly impossible to imagine a woman carrying a baby to term and then deciding in the sixth month to terminate a healthy child. Indeed, late-term abortions, even elective ones, surely tend to be in excruciating cases. But again, we shouldn’t let abortion defenders pretend that second- and third-trimester abortions are never elective.
But from the available evidence, all presented by defenders of abortion, it seems clear that many abortions after 20 weeks happen without any dire diagnoses for mom or baby. They wrote in their paper, “data suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.”
Writing about another woman, who aborted her child at 20 weeks, Foster and Kimport explained: “Her ex-boyfriend was not supportive of her continuing the pregnancy, and Amber knew she could not financially support another child. But she initially equivocated, unsure if she wanted an abortion. She eventually decided to have an abortion because, as she said, ‘I couldn’t afford another child. The dad didn’t want to be with me.
Warren Hern performs abortions as late as 35 weeks, according to Elaine Godfrey in the Atlantic. Godfrey spoke to some of his patients and to Hern himself about the reasons. Some of those abortions occurred after it became clear the baby could not survive. Others followed diagnoses that were less severe.
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