SIO340: Are Most Late Term Abortions for Health Reasons? Actually... No

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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It's an often cited statistic that a high percentage of late term abortions are to protect the health of the mother, or due to some complication. As it turns out... this is one example of a left wing talking point that just... isn't substantiated. But importantly, it does not matter. In part 2 of our series on The Turnaway Studies, Lindsey takes us through the data on later term abortions. If you plan on trying to change the minds of pro-lifers, this is a great episode to prepare you. Learn what the data say, and why even though the traditional pro-choice talking point may be incorrect, it doesn't actually affect the argument.

Links: Foster & Kimport (2013) Who Seeks Abortions at or After 20 Weeks?, Jones & Kooistra (2011) Abortion Incidence and Access to Services In The US, 2008, Foster et al. (2012) Attitudes and Decision Making Among Women Seeking Abortions at One US Clinic, Questions and Answers on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors (Pro-life article about later abortion), Foster & Biggs (2021) Timing of Pregnancy Discovery Among Women Seeking Abortion, Upadhyay et al. (2014) Denial of Abortion Because of Provider Gestational Age Limits in the US

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Series Inquires Only. This is episode 340, if my abacus is working.
0:20.0	I may need to take it into the shop. Oh yeah. Transmissions. Is an abacus a thing that like you get a new update? Apple would update their abacus and you'd have to get a new one.
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0:44.9	Or was it back in the day you just you were still using your like great grandfather's abacus that worked for 400 years? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
0:52.9	I just talked about how they don't make them like they did in his day. Yeah.
0:56.9	No, they did make them back then. They're like they do make them like they did in your day. And that's why I'm still using this one.
1:03.9	They're the same. Now it's you update something every four seconds and it never works as my experience with it.
1:09.9	But yeah. Episode 340. How's it going Lindsay? Oh really good. I wasn't expecting all the abacus talk. I do have a hank shaped hole in my heart that I'm just not sure how to fill. Wow.
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2:43.5	Okay.
2:46.9	Yes.
2:49.2	We're going to discuss today.
2:50.8	Part 1 We talked about the evidence from the Turnaway study that provided insight
2:55.0	into the most common reasons that women in their sample sought abortions.
2:58.2	Today We're going to be talking about two papers that specifically focus on the reasons
3:03.3	that women seek later abortions and specifically those happening after 20 weeks of gestational
3:08.1	trimester, which is 13 to 26 weeks.
3:10.7	And I remember trying to clarify last time,
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