>  MP> In 2021, second and third trimester abortions only accounted for 7% of
>  MP> total abortions in the 41 states (plus New York City) that report their
>  MP> data to the CDC.  Only *1%* were in the third trimester.

>  MP> So, depending on what you mean by "late-term,"  60% of 7%, or 1%, is not
>  MP> that many at all.

> As a compromise in my thinking I said... Abortions in the first trimester...
> The baby during that time sort of resembles a clump of tissue.  Doesn't matter
> if you were raped... or you use abortion as a form of birth control.  1st
> semester.

Most abortions (93%) happened in the first trimester.

Throwing a "60% of late term" number out, making it sound like a big number,
is inaccurate.  It would come out to 4 out of every 100 total abortions, or 4%.
If "late term" is third trimester only, it would come out to 1 out of every
200, or 0.5%.

First trimester is what most people can probably agree on, too, and was
mostly until some conservatives starting pushing for tighter restrictions
while most liberals were pushing for even fewer restrictions.

> Abortions after that point can't be elective... Don't get your calculator out
> and try to minimize the affect... Ooooooohhhh it's only a few 1000 or 10s of
> thousands... Its smaller than some rounding errors in the Federal budget ...
> Nancy made more on stock trades in 2024 so far than babies aborted late term.

I was not trying to minimize it, but trying to point out that 60% of 7%, or
1%, is not the huge number you are trying to make it out to be.  It is
either 4%, or 0.5%, of total abortions.

That 60% is also a number that I could not find any evidence to support.

> If their is a woman who wants to abort the baby late-term... She should have a
> Cesarean and put the baby up for adoption.

Cesareans are more dangerious and also make future pregancies more
difficult.


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