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[quote=Anonymous]Needing an abortion in the second or third trimester is known to be due to either barriers that prevented them from getting one in an earlier trimester (clinical complexity and appointment availability, cost of procedure and/or traveling, lack of support (ability to take time off work or school, arrange childcare, travel to appointments etc).

And the limits of medical knowledge…information about the health of the mother or baby that wasn’t available earlier on. As a mother to a fetus who was diagnosed with an incurable, severe non-inherited genetic condition deemed “incompatible” with life…you better believe I wanted every test, consult and second opinion. I knew I was pregnant at 5weeks. I had my first doctor’s appointment at 10wks and had an ultrasound at 11weeks and gentetic testing done. There were red flags from the start of that ultrasound. No one pushed me into termination, but do you have any idea the cost of and time in appointments and grief I spent on the next 5 weeks waiting for results to give any glimmer of hope that there was an error in the severity of outcomes? My belief is that all people who have an abortion are doing so out of the heartfelt belief that it is not necessarily the outcome they desire, but the parenting decision that is the best for them and their family. [/quote]

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