Even Some Abortion-Rights Activists Are Uneasy with Late-Term Abortions

On late term abortions:

20 weeks

Even abortion-rights advocates are beginning to say that late abortions pose special problems. Compared with early abortions, post-20-week procedures are four times more costly, seven times more likely to lead to medical complications, and far more physically and emotionally traumatic to the woman. In recognition of these problems, more and more clinics are offering counseling before the abortion. “I don’t want laws to stop abortion at 20 weeks,” says Charlotte Taft, an abortion counselor and consultant in Santa Fe, N.M. “But I’d like us to consider how we, as a society, can take responsibility for the denial and ambivalence” that lead to late abortions.

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

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Sarah Terzo is a pro-life writer and blogger. She is on the board of The Consistent Life Network and PLAGAL +

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