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Myth.Her focus in her post was on late-term abortions. She indicated that they are included in the "for the sake of convenience, sport and profit" category and I think that is a distortion of the facts. Something routinely done by her. It is hard to imagine a pregnant women carrying a baby for 9 months only to decide she's changed her mind. It's also hard to imagine any doctor agreeing to it. I'd wager that in the vast majority of cases there are severe medical problems that jeopardize either the mother the baby or both.
Late term abortions (after 5-6 months of gestation) are, of course, fatal for the fetus and risky to the mother's health. They are especially dangerous if the mother's medical condition entails serious complications. In the case of the latter—typically preeclampsia, placenta accreta, placental abruption, premature rupture of membranes and infection—induced delivery is the only viable option.
This is true in spite of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' hogwash that "w]omen in these circumstances may risk extensive blood loss, stroke, and septic shock that could lead to maternal death. Politicians must never require a doctor to wait for a medical condition to worsen and become life-threatening before being able to provide evidence-based care to their patients, including an abortion.”
My ass. Dozens of OB-GYN's have denounced the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' statement for the political dissembling that it is. No competent OB-GYN would fail to recommend induced labor at the very first signs of such complications in the first place, let alone recommend an abortion—which would entail the administration of toxic chemicals and hours of delay—in the rare cases wherein immediately dire complications as those listed in the above arise unexpectedly (sans prior warnings).