Late term abortion stats..

[readyin07]

Keeping with my rage...

several peoole have shared the meme showing twins that basically say that Clinton and Sanders support late term abortion. Sanders opposes any restrictions on abortions and under such laws abortion would be legal for babies up to 36 weeks. Then it says something like, why do I care so much, meet my 35 week twins. 

Please help me reality check these people before I just write fuck you a million times.

[OscarQ]

Oh fuck them all. I have a former 26 weeker. If he'd had some non-viable condition, I'd have terminated late too. I'm not judging anybody if and when they decide to terminate an abortion for any reason. Not a choice I would make for a medically normal pregnancy/child. But that is my Fing choice.

Sorry, I'm not real rational on people using their precious preemies as anti-choice propaganda. Someone else will have to be the voice of reason and point you to actual stats and information.

I think NYMag had something a few years ago on how hard it is for people to get the money / access to pay for early abortions (thanks restrictions) or they fail to admit even to themselves that they're pregnant until they're so far along (thanks for the lack of reproductive eduction) so that contributes to "elective" late term abortions. I think most of the rest of them are late breaking medical issues.

And really just respond back FUCK YOU a million times.

Found the article - not fact based really - just about the women who come to NY for late term abortions.  nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/15249/

[mbcdefg]

She DOES understand that nobody would've forced her to abort her twins, right?

[ttt]

Unfortunately, there little to no research about late-term abortions, so statistics are hard to come by.

www.factcheck.org/2015/09/clinton-off-on-late-term-abortions/

But some stories from women who have had late-term abortions:

www.ourbodiesourselves.org/stories/my-late-term-abortion/

www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a54680/why-i-had-a-late-term-abortion/

www.huffingtonpost.com/xojane-/this-is-what-its-really-like-to-have-a-late-term-abortion_b_8264562.html

www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2014/08/katlyn-river-loved-and-grieved-a-story-of-late-term-abortion.html

[asdfjkl]

May 3, 2016 14:27:13 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

She DOES understand that nobody would've forced her to abort her twins, right?

I would go with this.  ^^^

Allowing abortion to be legal until 36 weeks does not mean it will be enforced upon people like YOU MUST HAVE AN ABORTION.  It also does not mean that all OBs would perform abortions up to that point or that ANY OB would perform an abortion up to that point because a woman suddenly decided she wanted a baby with green eyes instead of blue - not that that would actually happen, but as long as we're in the world of histrionics, we might as well point out that even the histrionic view is unlikely to become reality.

[Deleted]

More anecdotes, but Andrew Sullivan published some of the most compelling stories I've ever read on this issue.

www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/06/its-so-personal-a-round-up/200913/

[stealthmom]

A friend from college posted that meme. My response was:

That woman needs to educate herself on why women have late-term abortions. As someone who thought she might need one I feel it's disgusting that she posts photos of her healthy babies while shaming women who wanted nothing more than to have a healthy baby themselves. Shame on her.

[debatethis]

Tell her to grow some compassion. www.aheartbreakingchoice.com/Stories/Stories.aspx

[downtoearth]

"Oh, isn't it sad when another woman's reproductive choices had no bearing on anyone else's reproductive choices?"

Or maybe I'm too snarky when it comes to abortions. Late, early, because of developmental issues or just because, I don't care why someone chooses one, just that she gets to decide herself.