Post-debate explainer: The truth about late-term abortions in the United States

[Michie]

During Tuesday night’s presidential debate with former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris refused to say whether she opposes late-term abortions and denied that they happen in the United States.

However, more than a dozen states, in fact, allow on-demand abortions after the point of viability, and nine of those states permit abortions throughout the entirety of pregnancy.

What’s more, studies from pro-abortion groups and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that thousands of abortions happen late into pregnancy every year.

“Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion,” the vice president claimed. “That is not happening — it’s insulting to the women of America.”

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Explainer: The truth about late-term abortions in the United States

Despite what viewers heard during Tuesday’s presidential debate, more than a dozen states in the U.S. allow on-demand abortions after the point of viability.

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[RileyG]

How awful. Praying for an end to this massacre.

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

I know people hate it when I try to apply critical thinking to anything related to abortion but as a person who lives in an abortion permissive state I’d like to say something about late term abortions.

what few there seem to almost all be related to severe defect or injury.

you can either accept that severe injury and defect occur and the these people need effective and appropriate medical treatment or not.