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>Late-term abortion on-demand is nonexistent outside the US By the stats he provides right below that statement, it's nonexistent in the US as well. 92.7% of
by DebtDeflation 4y ago
>Late-term abortion on-demand is nonexistent outside the US
By the stats he provides right below that statement, it's nonexistent in the US as well. 92.7% of abortions take place in the first trimester (13 weeks). All but 1% of abortions take place by week 20. People just aren't having abortions after that point unless something has gone horribly wrong with the pregnancy (the antithesis of "on-demand").
- whiddershins 4y agoA few thousand or even a few hundred a year would not be the same as nonexistent, even if it represents a small percentage of some other number.
- DebtDeflation 4y agoThere's probably the same number relatively speaking in the other countries where the author describes the situation as "non-existent".
- jandrese 4y agoIf something has gone horribly wrong with the pregnancy it doesn't make sense to force the woman to continue with it, yet that's exactly what the laws are doing. It's barbaric and inhumane. These blanket bans on late term abortions make very little sense when you actually think them through. It's legally enforced cruelty that helps nobody.
- DebtDeflation 4y agoRight. The point is that something along the lines of "abortion for any reason up to 15 weeks, abortion only for the life/health of the mother or severe fetal abnormalities after that" is something that would cover 99.9% of abortions that actually occur today and that non-extremists on both sides of the issue could probably agree to. Unfortunately, pragmatism and compromise are no longer possible in US politics.
- jandrese 4y ago"Ok you have a medically valid reason to get the abortion. Unfortunately since our state takes a hardline stance on abortions in general there are no doctors or facilities that perform it."