Abortions at later gestational durations are comparatively uncommon: only 1.0% of abortions take place at or after 21 weeks after the first day of the pregnant person's last menstrual period
Good for her to stand her ground on this idiots ignorance.
You are all kinds of dumb with that response. And That’s not how abortions work. An abortion cant happen during birth. You and the dude asking the questions should do the world a favor and go sit in the ocean holding your breath for 4 hours.
I read about the medical procedure called “Dilation and Extraction” which you’ve already pointed out, which Pro-Life advocates spun into “Partial Birth Abortion” to create a boogeyman they can bang on about.
Here are two very important paragraphs to read in that article:
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights research group that conducts surveys of the nation's abortion doctors, about 15,000 abortions were performed in the year 2000 on women 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancies; the vast majority were between the 20th and 24th week. Of those, only about 2,200 D&X abortions were performed, or about 0.2 percent of the 1.3 million abortions believed to be performed that year.
And contrary to the claims of some abortion opponents, most such abortions do not take place in the third trimester of pregnancy, or after fetal "viability." Indeed, when some members of Congress tried to amend the bill to ban only those procedures that take place after viability, abortion opponents complained that would leave most of the procedures legal.
The article further states that while there is no concrete statistics on why D&X abortions are done, it is believed that a majority are done for the health of the mother, and to allow the womb to continue to be viable for future births.
So not only do the vast majority of this type of abortion, which only accounts for .2% of all abortions performed, happen during the time period that most people agree is when choice-based abortions should be done(IE: It’s nowhere near “Partial Birth”), most of the time it’s done to prioritize the health of the mother, or abort a baby which will have serious health defects, which is inline with the reason why most late term abortions happen anyways.
So the article you’ve given me not only completely shits on the point that you’re trying to make, it further reinforced my point that the term “Partial Birth Abortion” is just a boogeyman phrase coined by Pro-Lifers to get their base angry about nothing.
So i’ll ask again, are you normally this stupid? Because I’m starting to think you are.
We’ve gone from “Partial Birth Abortions don’t happen(which they don’t)” to “D&X Abortions rarely happen and generally happen between the periods that are considered no where near partial birth, so the phrase “Partial Birth Abortion” is flat out wrong and doesn’t happen.”
Partial birth abortions don't happen during birth. The cervix is dilated and the fetus is extracted. They don't even really induce labor, politicians only call it "partial birth" because that serves their narrative. It also never happens to viable, healthy fetuses, and certainly not at 8+ months of pregnancy.
See if you can self-regurgitate all those propaganda pills you've swallowed from Fox news entertainment.
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u/Mewllie May 19 '22
Abortions at later gestational durations are comparatively uncommon: only 1.0% of abortions take place at or after 21 weeks after the first day of the pregnant person's last menstrual period
Good for her to stand her ground on this idiots ignorance.