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Originally Posted by SunnySide
The New York law allows for women after 24 weeks of pregnancy to get an abortion if “there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.”
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Seems the only time a woman can get an abortion after 24 weeks is if the fetus isnt viable or moms life or health is threatened.
Are there elective abortions after 24 weeks?
Seems not.
No one is aborting a viable fetus unless it medically necessary.
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Seems like I posted this the last time this came up.
"Are there elective abortions after 24 weeks"?
Yes - thousands of them. Most people think that most late term abortions are abortions of unviable fetuses or due to extreme risk to the mother. They're wrong - most late term abortions are elective on healthy fetuses from healthy mothers.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6457018/
.....However, while the occasional politician or news reporter will still indicate that late-term abortions are most often performed in the case of “severe fetal anomalies” or to “save the woman’s life,” the trajectory of the peer-reviewed research literature has been obvious for decades: most late-term abortions are elective, done on healthy women with healthy fetuses, and for the same reasons given by women experiencing first trimester abortions. The Guttmacher Institute has provided a number of reports over 2 decades which have identified the reasons why women choose abortion, and they have consistently reported that childbearing would interfere with their education, work, and ability to care for existing dependents; would be a financial burden; and would disrupt partner relationships.3 A more recent
Guttmacher study focused on abortion after 20 weeks of gestation and similarly concluded that women seeking late-term abortions were not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.....
For those of you who discount conservative sources some FYI for you.
Guttmacher Institute from wiki
The Guttmacher Institute is a pro-choice[1][2] research organization started in 1968 that works to study, educate, and advance sexual and reproductive health and rights