"Late term abortions are just for medical reasons."

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LadyOfWaterLilies

The common argument is that nobody gets late term abortions for non-medical reasons.

Here's the % of reasons women get late term abortions.


32%: women didn't recognise pregnancy/misjudged gestation

22%: woman made it hard to make arrangements for abortion

15%: she was afraid to tell her parents/partner

11%: she took time to decide if she wanted an abortion

3%: she waited for her relationship to change

3%: she was pressured to not get an abortion 

3%: something changed after she got pregnant (non medical)

3%: woman didn't know timing was important

2%: woman didn't know she could get an abortion

1%: fetal problem was diagnosed later in pregnancy

4%: it put her health at risk.

1%: it put her life at risk.


That's a total of 1% of late term abortions being medically necessary of 5% being medically related. So clearly, not all (or even most) or late term abortions are for medical reasons.

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