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"After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?" [1] is a controversial article published by Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini. Available online from 2012 and published in the Journal of Medical Ethics in 2013, [2] it argues to call child euthanasia or infanticide "after-birth abortion" and highlights similarities between abortion and euthanasia.
1.3% of abortions occur after 21 weeks of pregnancy in the US. Although it is very uncommon, women undergoing surgical abortion after this gestational age sometimes give birth to a fetus that may survive briefly. [55] [56] [57] The periviable period is considered to be between 20 and 25 weeks gestation. [58]
The procedure is used both after miscarriages and for abortions in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. When used to perform an abortion, an intact D&E can occur after feticide or on a live fetus. In the United States, where federal law describes an intact D&E on a live fetus as a partial-birth abortion, [1] [2] the
5) Morning-after pills are not the same thing as a medical abortion Although some people may confuse the two, morning-after pills (also known as emergency contraception) and medical abortions are ...
Even in states where abortion is legal, many restrict the procedure after 'fetal viability.' Here's what that means and why some abortions happen later in pregnancy.
Infanticide is criminalized in every state, and no state has passed a law that allows killing a baby after birth. Abortion rights advocates say language like this and “late-term abortions” are a not-so-subtle attempt to stigmatize abortions later in pregnancy. But even those are exceedingly rare.
Anabely Lopes flew to Washington for an abortion last year after Florida banned most procedures after 15 weeks. She’ll return Tuesday for Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.
Abortion is illegal after 6 weeks in Florida, [41] with exceptions for rape, incest, and human trafficking (up to 15 weeks), fetal abnormalities (before the third trimester), and, throughout pregnancy, if the pregnant woman's life is in danger. Parental consent is required for minors under the age of 18.