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Late termination of pregnancy, also referred to politically as third trimester abortion, [2] describes the termination of pregnancy by inducing labor during a late stage of gestation. [3] In this context, late is not precisely defined, and different medical publications use varying gestational age thresholds. [ 3 ]
Some people believe the D&E procedure illustrates that abortion, and especially late-term abortion, is the taking of a human life and therefore ought to be illegal. People who believe this consider the procedure to be infanticide , [ 22 ] a position that many in the anti-abortion movement extend to cover all abortions. [ 23 ]
Lindsey Graham says his 15-week federal abortion ban is a ban on "late-term" abortions. A normal pregnancy is 40 weeks. 15 weeks is barely into the 2nd trimester.
In 2015, Kansas became the first state to ban the dilation and evacuation procedure, a common second-trimester abortion procedure. [78] But the new law was later struck down by the Kansas Court of Appeals in January 2016, without ever having gone into effect.
Almost all his procedures are in the late stages of pregnancy, usually because the fetus has a catastrophic medical condition or the pregnancy endangers the woman's health. ... Late-term abortion ...
Although so-called late-term procedures are rare, abortion rights proponents said Wednesday's ruling chips away at reproductive healthcare access in one of the last Southern states where abortion ...
In 1968, abortion by the instillation of saline solution accounted for 28% of those procedures performed legally in San Francisco, California. [5] Intrauterine instillation (of all kinds) declined from 10.4% of all legal abortions in the U.S. in 1972 to 1.7% in 1985, [ 6 ] falling to 0.8% of the total incidence of induced abortion in the United ...
“The phrase ‘late-term abortion’ is a political buzzword, not medical terminology,” explained one OB-GYN.