{"id":10083,"date":"2010-10-07T09:58:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10083"},"modified":"2010-10-07T09:58:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T13:58:57","slug":"late-term-abortion-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/late-term-abortion-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Late term abortion in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertaprolife.com\/rose_pdf\/sept_2007.pdf\">here<\/a> (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lack of detailed reporting by hospitals and clinics means that the Statistics Canada numbers for second and third trimester abortions represent a fraction of the total. In the report to Canadian Physicians for Life, Statistics Canada has information on gestational age for 36,874 abortions, only about one third of the total. If that one-third paints an accurate reflection of all the abortions performed, we have a fairly high number of abortions that occur after the first trimester, information that most people in Canada have never heard.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what the report shows: There were 31,994 first trimester abortions, or 87% of the 36,874 that included gestational age in their report. There were 4,479 abortions performed between 13 and 20 weeks gestation. The Canadian Medical Association considers 20 weeks to be the point of viability, that is, the point at which babies can survive outside the womb. After the 20 week period, there were 401 abortions, 366 between 21 and 24 weeks, 18 between 25 and 28 weeks, 12 between 29 and 32 weeks and 5 abortions reported at 33+ weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind, if this pattern applies to the over 60,000 abortions for which there is no gestational information, it means <strong>there were about 1,200 post-viability abortions in Canada in 2004, with more than 100 in the third trimester and 15 in the final six weeks of pregnancy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is true that every abortion, no matter at what stage it occurs, destroys a tiny human being. Each one also coarsens our society\u2019s view of human life and increases our tolerance for the brutality of abortion. Two decades ago, about 98% of abortions occurred in the first trimester, when women and men could be convinced the embryo was a \u201cclump of cells.\u201d Now a growing number of women are choosing abortion when they can feel their baby move and they know with certainty that this is a tiny human being. Just as disturbing, there are doctors willing to take these lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where is the outcry against this from protestant mainline churches?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here (my emphasis): The lack of detailed reporting by hospitals and clinics means that the Statistics Canada numbers for second and third trimester abortions represent a fraction of the total. In the report to Canadian Physicians for Life, Statistics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/late-term-abortion-in-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2022],"class_list":["post-10083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}