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Be on the alert. Republicans will try to pivot on abortion by advocating for a 15 week ban citing polls 1 in 3 people approve of abortions in the third trimester. However they frame the question as if women are having abortions in the third trimester just because they change their mind.
Just a reminder <1% of abortions happen in the third trimester. I cannot recall any case where a woman just changed her mind at 8 months 3 weeks and finds a doctor willing to perform that abortion. That occurrence is close to or zero.
Here is how righties are trying to frame the issue.
In other words, they claim doctors will lie just to perform an abortion. Think that has any grain of truth?
Note the publication pushing this narrative.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Just a reminder <1% of abortions happen in the third trimester. I cannot recall any case where a woman just changed her mind at 8 months 3 weeks and finds a doctor willing to perform that abortion. That occurrence is close to or zero.
Here is how righties are trying to frame the issue.
Defenders of legal abortion, in politics and the news media, do not like talking about third-trimester abortions. That’s natural because, as everyone who has had a baby knows, in the third trimester of pregnancy, the not-yet-born baby looks just like a baby, acts like a baby, and is viable outside the womb.
For that reason, abortion defenders don’t like admitting that Roe v. Wadeestablished, in effect, a constitutional right to abortion in the third trimester — as long as the abortionist said the abortion was needed for the mother’s health, which late-term abortionists will say about any pregnancy.
In other words, they claim doctors will lie just to perform an abortion. Think that has any grain of truth?
Note the publication pushing this narrative.

Third-trimester abortions are much more common than 'assault-rifle' deaths
Defenders of legal abortion, in politics and the news media, do not like talking about third-trimester abortions. That’s natural because, as everyone who has had a baby knows, in the third trimester of pregnancy, the not-yet-born baby looks just like a baby, acts like a baby, and is viable outside…

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