âLate term abortions are so rare we do not even need to worry about them and they ONLY happen for life of the mother situations.â
Ok letâs fact-check that.
.065% of abortions are because a womanâs life is endangered, and .666 are because of a fetal abnormality
So 0.731% of abortions would even possibly be argued as justified in that sense, and the likely good that all of those were caught AFTER 21 weeks is low. Right?
So letâs address late terms being uncommon. Abortions at later gestational durations are comparatively uncommon: only 1.0% of abortions take place at or after 21âweeks after the first day of the pregnant person's last menstrual period
Yet, researchers estimate there were 1,026,700 abortions in 2023. "That's the highest number in over a decade, [and] the first time there have been over a million abortions provided in the U.S. formal health care system since 2012,"
1% of 1,026,700 is 10,276.
0.731% (which is what could be feasibly argued be be ânecessaryâ remember? And even that I would disagree in many of those cases,) is 7505.177.
Roughly 10,276 abortions a year are late term. Letâs put this into some context.
In the United States, there are approximately 4,000 unintentional drowning deaths each year, which is about 11 deaths per day.
In 2022, there were 3,790 civilian fire deaths in the United States.
In 2022, the FBI reported that there were 4,251 victims of murder who identified as female in the United States. A further 93 murder victims were of an unknown gender in that year.
Sooooo⊠your idea of âso rare it isnât worth discussingâ is more than twice the annual American deaths by drowning. More than twice the annual American deaths by fire, more than twice the number of American women murdered a year.
And even IF we decide that the 7,505 were 100% necessary and unavoidable (which I highly doubt) that still leaves 2,762 late term abortions that werenât. 8 viable babies a day.
Thatâs significantly higher than the body counts of any serial killer in history. 8 a day. Minimum.
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