“I have interviewed abortion clinic workers who say that no abortions occur before six weeks, and most do not occur until the baby’s eighth week of development. Even when pregnancies are detected earlier, operators want to make sure the unborn is large enough to do a proper inventory of his severed body parts. (A hand or leg inadvertently left in the mother will cause a dangerous infection.)”
Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)page 67
Now that RU-486 is available, abortions can be done anytime after a woman finds out she’s pregnant. Most abortions, however, are still done surgically.