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[quote=Anonymous]Ok, since OP keeps pushing for "data", when people are not collecting such data, we can try to extrapolate from what data is available.

[url]https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/abortions-later-in-pregnancy-in-a-post-dobbs-era/[/url]
[quote]Abortions occurring at or after 21 weeks gestation are rare. According to the CDC’s Abortion Surveillance Data for 2021, prior to the Dobbs decision, the vast number of abortions (96%) occurred at or before 15 weeks gestation, while 3% occurred from 16 to 20 weeks gestation, and just 1% of abortions were performed at or after 21 weeks (Figure 3). This amounts to approximately 4,100 abortions per year occurring at or after 21 weeks. However, this estimate only includes the 41 reporting areas that report abortions to the CDC by gestational age and excludes major states such as California and New York[/quote]

[quote]The CDC does not elaborate on the breakdown by gestational age for abortions occurring past 21 weeks, but it is likely that the vast majority occur soon after 21 weeks rather than much later in the pregnancy. [b]While very limited contemporary data exists on this issue, a study from 1992 estimated 0.02% of all abortions occurred after 26 weeks gestation (320 to 600 cases per year).[/b][/quote]

But, comparing abortion rates from 1992 to 2024:
[url]https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-unitedstates.html[/url]

In 1992, the Guttmacher Institute (GI) and Abortion Worldwide Report (AWR) reported 1.529M abortions. 
In 2023, GI estimated 950,640 abortions (62% of 1992) and AWR estimated 916,300 abortions (59% of 1992).

Assuming that the number of abortions performed in 2023 was approximately 60% of the number performed in 2023, then it seems that there were between 190-360 abortions TOTAL after 26 weeks of gestation (e.g. third trimester).

And the majority of those are going to be for health of mother or baby or major birth defects or non-life-sustaining birth issues.

So, we are probably looking at well less than 100 such abortions (out of millions of pregnancies) per year.

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