{"id":219486,"date":"2020-03-08T13:40:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=219486"},"modified":"2021-02-15T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:02:54","slug":"who-where-why-answers-late-term-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/who-where-why-answers-late-term-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Who, where, why, and how many? Answers to your top four questions about late-term abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite American opposition to late-term abortions, these barbaric procedures occur more frequently in the United States than most people realize. Years of polling conducted by Gallup<\/a>\u00a0have found that Americans consistently oppose abortion later in pregnancy. As recently as January 2020, a Marist poll<\/a> commissioned by the Knights of Columbus<\/a> found<\/a> that\u00a0a majority of Americans want to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. It also found that “7 in 10 Americans would limit abortion to, at most, the first three months of pregnancy. The 70% number is identical to last summer\u2019s NPR\/PBS NewsHour\/Marist Poll<\/a>,” KOFC.org\u00a0noted<\/a>.\u00a0However, a 2021 Marist poll found<\/a>\u00a0that this number had increased to 76%.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gallup polling on late abortion<\/p><\/div>\n

1. How many late-term abortions really happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Live Action News\u00a0previously documented<\/a>\u00a0that abortions committed in the second and third trimesters together totaled over\u00a0100,000<\/em>\u00a0in 2017 alone. Neither of the national reporting agencies — the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Guttmacher Institute — specify abortions by weeks in the third trimester; however, they both acknowledge that abortions committed at 21 weeks or greater<\/a> represent 1% to 1.3% of all reported abortions. Despite this flaw, what both reporting agencies tell us is that abortions committed at or beyond 21 weeks are far from insignificant.<\/p>\n

The data shows:<\/p>\n