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[quote=Anonymous]According to the CDC, 92.7% of abortions in 2019 occurred prior to 13 weeks.  (https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htm)

What percentage of those abortions do you think were "because I don't want to have a baby"? Probably the vast majority, right?

So a 15-week ban will not significantly reduce abortions of convenience (which is what Lindsey and his ilk are supposedly trying to do). Instead, it will:

(1) force women to carry unviable pregnancies to term -- increasing dramatically the number of children who are born dead, die soon after birth, or live with disabilities that require expensive care.

(2) force young girls to carry pregnancies to term because they did not know they were pregnant (too young to understand their own bodies or haven't even started a predictable menstrual cycle) or were too afraid to tell anyone they had stopped menstrating and/or had been sexually abused/raped.

(3) encourage more states to pass even more stringent restrictions.

This isn't about "life." It's about punishing women.

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