The Mother They Say Doesn't Exist

A later-term abortion story that was never supposed to happen.

If you’ve ever found yourself in a debate about later term abortion, you’ve most likely heard, “A mother would never wait halfway through her pregnancy to abort.”, "Later term abortions only happen when it’s medically necessary or the child is suffering.”, or “Later term abortion doesn’t happen.”.

Unfortunately, that isn’t true.

Later Term Abortion Happens A Lot

Approx. 1% of all abortions are done 21 weeks+.

Doesn’t seem like much, does it? Just 1%? Whew, nothing to worry about there.

Except we have over a million abortions in the US every year. Which means 1% of a million is 10,000 later abortions happening every single year in the US. 10,000 babies that are killed so late in the pregnancy that they were developed enough to possibly survive outside of the womb.

Viability

Babies have survived outside of the womb as early as 21 weeks.

At 22 weeks old, they have a ~10-30% chance of survival.

At 23 weeks old, it’s a ~30-55% chance.

By 24 weeks, there’s a ~55-75% chance that baby will survive.

Here’s the kicker -

The Reason?

The majority of later term abortions happen for purely elective reasons, performed on healthy mothers with healthy babies.

Not because of medical emergencies, not because the mother is dying, not because of severe fetal anomalies.

The reasons for later term abortions reflect the same reasons for first trimester abortions.

So, yes. It happens.

Some mothers do decide to have an abortion later in pregnancy for a purely elective reasons.

Alexia Moore is one of them.

Alexia Moore is a 31-year-old mother who lives in Georgia. She has been charged with attempted murder because she allegedly took oxycodone and an abortion pill between 22-24 weeks. The warrant says a toxicology screening detected oxycodone in the baby’s blood. She went to the hospital, the baby was delivered, then suffered for an hour and died. Moore reportedly told hospital staff, “I know my infant is suffering, because I am the one who did the abortion. I want her to die.”

“I want her to die.”

So next time an abortion supporter says that it doesn’t happen, give them this article and tell them about Alexia Moore. Read more on her case and how the media distorted the truth about what happened here.