• YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    I am fine with late term abortions and we should have them as an option. They make up about 1% of abortions. These are abortions that happen after 21 weeks and can include reasons like:

    -fetus abnormalities in the brain that cannot be caught until the third trimester or even doctors not fully disclosing severities because they are pro-life,

    -unwanted pregnancy to a woman that didn’t know she was pregnant until later on,

    -finances changing or even relationships changing

    -barriers preventing women from getting abortions (financial such as not having enough money to pay out of pocket or having to travel out of state which frequently required both more money and multiple visits because of policy)

    You can read more here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321603/

    I’ve also read a separate study I cannot find that included women who were addicted to drugs wanting an abortion but addiction made it complicated to get an abortion early on.

    But anyway the reason doesn’t matter to me at this point, the conversation should be between a woman and her doctor, not politicians.