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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Copied from another thread:

Here’s a study from Guttmacher showing the reasons women seek abortions after 20 weeks and it was about logistical delays not deformities.

https://onlinelibrary.wil...63/4521013

Here’s KFF

“Individuals seek abortions later in pregnancy for a number of reasons. As part of the Turnaway study out of the University of California San Francisco, from 2008-2010 over 440 women were asked about why they experienced delays in obtaining abortion care, if any (Figure 4). Almost half of individuals who obtained an abortion after 20 weeks did not suspect they were pregnant until later in pregnancy, and other barriers to care included lack of information about where to access an abortion, transportation difficulties, lack of insurance coverage and inability to pay for the procedure. A 2022 study of patients seeking abortions later in pregnancy found that they fell into two categories: either they had learned new information about their pregnancies that made them no longer desirable, such as not finding out they were pregnant until very late in the pregnancy or the emergence of serious fetal or their own health issue; or experiencing barriers to abortion services earlier in the pregnancy that force them to delay the abortion until the third trimester.“
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Thank you; I appreciate that.  At least it helps illuminate the issue better, and provide some reasons behind the phenomenon, to better understand it.[/quote]

And please understand that “late term abortion” is a phrase used by anti-abortionists and that abortions in the third trimester which starts after [b]week 27[/b] when fetuses are at the point of viability are exceptionally rare and you would find almost no provider who would perform them that late and for no serious reason. [/quote]

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