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Originally Posted by Azure
Every single other country in the world except 2 that don't like human rights at all have come to some sort of law as to when abortion should still be allowed.
If the study is anything more than that then I agree it is a sham, but it is concerning that people here think late-term abortions should be legal without any kind of medical reason when many fetus' have survived after 21 weeks.
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Probably because most people realize that little would change with a law like that being enacted since you can't just show up at a doctor and get a late term abortion on demand as it is. It's something that's taken very seriously by the medical community.
It's also not a widespread issue. Third trimester abortions represent about half of one percent of all abortions in Canada and the if studies are to be believed, vast majority are done for purely medical reasons. Further, that percentage is lower than most countries that have restrictions so it's not clear to me at all how it would have any effect. Everyone who is currently getting late term abortions would still be getting them even with a new law.
I suppose there's nothing wrong with having laws to regulate late term abortions and I wouldn't disagree with them in principle, but is it really a problem in Canada right now? It seems like virtually all late term abortions are already done for medical reasons, so I seriously question the notion that women are getting abortions 6+ months into a pregnancy for convenience.