re: Kennedy reaffirms he supports full term abortions

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Not a clever semantics game or an enlightened angle. At 8.5 months, if the pregnancy is terminated, a baby is born not killed. Birth terminates the pregnancy. This is done to protect the health and lives of both the mother and the baby.

I don’t know how else to explain it. You’re either unable or unwilling to understand.

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What are you talking about?

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Gestational Age
Among the 40 areas that reported gestational age at the time of abortion for 2008 (Table 7), the majority (62.8%) of abortions were performed at =8 weeks' gestation, and 91.4% were performed at =13 weeks' gestation. A total of 7.3% of abortions were performed at 14--20 weeks' gestation, and 1.3% were performed at =21 weeks' gestation. Among the 32 reporting areas that provided data on gestational age every year during 1999--2008 (Table 8), the percentage of abortions performed at =13 weeks' gestation was stable but shifted toward earlier gestational ages: abortions performed at =8 weeks' gestation increased 12%, whereas abortions performed at 9--13 weeks' gestation decreased 18%. The percentage increase in abortions performed at =8 weeks' was greatest during 1999--2003 but continued during 2004--2008; similarly, the percentage decrease in abortions performed at 9--13 weeks' was greatest during 1999--2003 but continued during 2004--2008. Throughout the period of analysis, the percentage of abortions performed at >13 weeks' gestation remained low (<10%). Abortions performed at =16 weeks' gestation decreased 13%--17% during 1999--2008, although this decrease only took place during 1999--2003 and did not continue during 2004--2008.

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8,000 Killed late term. According to the CDC.

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Some articles are representing it as 13,000 not sure which part of the data they are looking at, but it's there. 13,000 late term.

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Data from both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Guttmacher Institute on total abortions and late-term abortions suggests that approximately 1.1 to 1.3% of abortions are carried out at 21 weeks of gestation and later. The true percentage may be even higher, as the CDC estimate does not include multiple states where late-term abortions take place (including California and Maryland). The most recent national abortion total from the Guttmacher Institute and its direct surveys of abortion facilities found that there were an estimated 862,320 abortions in the United States in 2017, and CDC and state reports indicate that abortions have increased since then. Even using these low estimates, that translates into approximately 10,000 late-term abortions every year. In 2019, for example, late-term abortions constituted as much as 12% of all abortions in New Mexico.

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You sound like PP:

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