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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People don't get nonmedical abortions at 20 weeks in part because pregnancies are generally very hard to hide at that stage. It's been months of people asking when the baby is due, and asking about names, and sharing stories about their pregnancies. That's what women do. It's what families do, even poor families, and families without as much advantage or class as you. Even unmarried women hear congratulations about the pregnancy from the neighbors, and their aunts, and people at the store where they shop.

They are going to explain to everybody that there's no baby because they decided to abort it right before it could survive? Really?

If someone wants to get rid of a pregnancy because it is "inconvenient" -- and boy, that is a helluva range of meaning there -- they do it before they have to answer questions about it. Social disapprobation is huge for abortion, especially late term. Whether you think it should be or not, doesn't matter -- nobody gets through that with mild singing. Women don't seek it out unless they are beyond desperate.[/quote]

Except they do.
I was curious and did some researchand this is what I learned.
1. 3rd trimester abortions are rare.
2. There's not much research into 3rd trimester abortions.
3. The term "late term" abortion is vague and different people mean different things by it.
4. The evidence we have is that there are some 3rd semester abortions happening for reasons other than life of the mother/baby.

I am not sure why we need to double down on "there are no voluntary abortions in the 3rd trimester!" 
It's false, but isn't it also irrelevent? Abortion is legal. Even if we were to make abortion illegal in the 3rd trimester, anyone who wanted an abortion would surely be able to find a sympathetic doctor to sign off on medical necessity and all 3rd trimester abortions would become medically necessary.[/quote]
First, have you ever been pregnant?
Second, you're insanely off base about your "sympathetic doctor" to simply "sign off" on medical necessity. OBs don't let you use Advil; you think they would wink and nod about this? And third, even if you did find someone to "sign off," there are FOUR doctors in the entire country who do these procedures. Four. They are out of pocket procedures, they are sometimes multi-day procedures, and this means flying and a hotel room on top of surgical charges. Not. happening.[/quote]

I probably shouldn't even post this, since the bill that is the topic of this thread calls for outlawing abortion at SIX WEEKS so the late term stuff is off-topic, but here is what happened when this woman needed an abortion at 32 weeks. It is heart-rending.
http://jezebel.com/interview-with-a-woman-who-recently-had-an-abortion-at-1781972395[/quote]

A heartbreaking and horrific situation and an illustration of why blanket prohibitions on abortion are wrong. There will always be someone like this who has a special case that needs a special resolution.[/quote]

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