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Thread #100901   Message #2032260
Posted By: Peace
21-Apr-07 - 07:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: New Supreme court decision on abortion
Subject: RE: BS: New Supreme court decision on abortion
It is sometimes called late-term abortion. (BUT, what late-term means is up in the air. For some it's 13-16 weeks and it goes as far as the third trimester at 27 weeks

"A total of 103,768 abortions were performed in 2003 [in Canada]"

The number of late-term abortions was 9.5% or 9,859. That figure is not insignificant. If the general 10-1 ratio holds true (as so often it does with the US and Canada), then there were approximately 98,590 late-term abortions in the US. Folks, that is one helluva lotta lives.