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

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

> There's nothing you can do to convince me... It's only 100,000 babies
> terminated in the later months.

If I use your percentage - 60% elective after the first trimester - and the
percentage of abortions that are not first trimester - 7% - there has been
no year where that would account for 100,000 babies.  It would be less than
4,000 that are elective after the first trimester.

> Lets make it law... 1st trimester and any point after that... Cannot be
> elective and has to be a valid reason to terminate it... and the baby is not
> viable.

> Every time someone brings this up the Democrats go nuts.

I would go with "not viable."  Third trimester they ofen can be viable.  The
problem we have is that we've decided to fix the late term abortion
problem, and save 4,000 unwanted kids, by making them all illegal in most
places.

How many of those thousands of kids can I put you down for adopting?


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