“Our biggest group is 10-to-18-year-olds in total denial,” says an official at one Southern clinic, making a common observation. Another category consists of women who find out late that they are pregnant: very young teens with irregular menstrual periods and women in their late 40s who mistakenly thought they had entered menopause. In interviews with 1,000 abortion patients, University of Alabama sociologist Michele Wilson found that compared with women who had abortions in the first trimester, those getting later abortions were more likely to be young, to live with their parents, and to have conferred with them on this decision. She concluded that some of the abortions were performed later because the women had to take more time to build family consensus for the choice.
Lavelle, Marianne, Glastris, Paul, Gerson, Michael J., Daniel, Missy, Meyer, Michele, When abortions come late in a pregnancy U.S. News & World Report, 00415537, 01/19/98, Vol. 124, Issue 2
this article shows that late-term abortions are usually done on healthy women with healthy pregnancies
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