WASHINGTON DC (VINnews) — According to new research, tens of thousands of abortions take place on or after the 15-week mark.
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A disturbing new study released in September from the Lozier Institute found that 6% of abortions take place at or after the 15-week pregnancy mark. That equals tens of thousands of abortions per year. The numbers are based on data from the CDC.
“When applied to the Guttmacher Institute’s most recent estimate of 930,160 abortions nationwide in 2020, this is approximately 55,800 abortions at 15 weeks or later each year,” the study found.
Although data collection is difficult due to various reasons, the study estimated that five percent of abortions occur at or after the 15-week mark in pro-life states, and seven percent in more pro-abortion states.
A bill proposed by Republicans in the Senate, entitled the “Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act”, seeks to ban abortions after 15 weeks, generally accepted as the point at which babies feel pain.
An excerpt of a similar bill in the House says:
“In considering the use of anesthesia for invasive medical procedures performed on the fetus, evidence has concluded that from as early as 12 weeks and certainly by 15 weeks gestational age on ward, the fetus is extremely sensitive to painful stimuli, making it necessary to apply adequate analgesia and anesthesia to prevent fetal suffering. Consequently, there is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain at least by 15 weeks gestational age, if not earlier. Abortion carries significant physical and psychological risks to the pregnant woman, and these physical and psychological risks increase with gestational age.”
It also notes that most procedures at that point are dismemberment abortions “which involve the use of surgical instruments to crush and tear the unborn child apart before removing the pieces of the dead child from the womb.”
According to Breitbart News, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is introducing the Senate bill, said:
“Should we as a nation be aborting babies that can feel excruciating pain from an abortion?” he said, laying out his case for something to be done at the federal level. Such a proposal, he said, should say that after 15 weeks, there should be no abortion on demand except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother…The science tells us that the nerve endings are developed to the point that the unborn child feels pain.”
But zero abortions involve a two-month-old baby like the one pictured.
As I’ve said before, it’s all about timing. While it might be a noble idea to do what Graham is proposing, if we make noise about this now, just before the midterm elections, we will scare off all the not-so-leftist liberals who are beginning to realize what a mess the Dems have made of everything — everything except abortion, that is, which in a liberal’s mind is being made a mess of by conservatives. So Mr. Graham, please, please shut up until after the midterms, after you undo some of the recent damage done by your hopefully-former colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
15 weeks and later is when they do anatomy scans. That’s when they discover babies with half a brain, no limbs, a heart missing 3 chambers. Do you want to be denied the right to make that health decision? then keep voting GOP
many in the inner city take drugs and therefore so many mentally ill are found in low income neighborhoods as their mothers take cocaine while pregnant so maybe this is the reason they are doing abortions those future fetuses in the inner city due to no father figure and liberal schools then grow up to be trayvon martins and eric garner and most of all george floyd
What % of them are in the hood?
If a 15 week fetus feels pain, then next it will be outlawing circumcision on a full term male baby.
There are 167.5 million women in the US. This is a very small number. Abortions past 15 weeks can be medically necessary for the health and/or life of the mother. The Republican bill is medically ignorant, and infringes on my right to get an abortion to protect my health (notice that there is no exception for the health of the mother. Doctors must wait until the woman’s life is in imminent danger. This is ridiculous.)
This is part of a deliberate plan of destruction. No restrictions and no morals and complete breakdown of society
DEMS: Social distancing, masks to save lives?
GOP: government shouldn’t tell me what to do
DEMS: Control military style automatic guns to save lives
GOP: government shouldn’t tell me what to do its a personal and constitutional right
DEMS: more regulation on cancer causing chemicals that are already banned in Europe
GOP: pro business, less regulation, more $$ is worth the small increase in cancer rates.
DEMS abortions are a constitutional right, government should tell woman what to do
GOP: abortion are murder & not a constitutional right, we want BIG government to criminalize abortions (even is cases of rape and incest)
neither of them are consistent, they all contradict themselves, the GOP more so then the DEMS but they are all guilty of inconsistency
Many don’t realize they are pregnant till then!
Busy with life
Hormones
Weather
Abortion policies are racist. More than 20 million Black babies have been aborted since the 1973 Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision legalized abortion in our country. 79% of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities are located within walking distance of neighborhoods that have proportionately higher populations of black or Latina women and minority communities. The abortion industry targets women of color, selling them the illusion that they must choose between career advancement and the lives of their babies. 38.4% of all reported abortions in the U.S. in 2019 were performed on Black women, however, only about 13.4% of the total population is Black. For every 1,000 live births, non-Hispanic Black women had 386 abortions. Non-Hispanic White women had 117 abortions/1,000 live births. nearly 40% of all abortions in America since Roe vs. Wade have been from Black Americans, this equates to more than 20 million Black pregnancies aborted. Abortion policies culls the birth rates of the under privileged and minority communities the most. Abortion policies are racist.