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C-section has it's own risks, and either way, children who've been raped shouldn't be forced to have chomo babies (not that it still doesn't happen, as horrific as it is). Especially since children don't even have to be teenagers to get pregnant following rape, the youngest mother on record was only 5 1/2 years old (she had precocious puberty), and I think the average age of menarche is like 11 or some shit with an increasing number of girls hitting it even younger.But that's what the original poster meant. They said they are pro choice at any stage including the final for any reason.
Don't they remove the baby via c-section?
Even if there was a woman out there willing to drop tens of thousands of dollars to fly across the country and abort a perfectly healthy fetus late term for shits and giggles, that's not the kind of person I think that should have a kid.
But yeah, on the rare occasion late term abortions happen (which again aren't even legal in most places and costs a shitton of money, on top of being painful procedures that last several days) it's almost always a wanted pregnancy that got some horrible diagnosis. Lots of nasty conditions aren't usually diagnosed until later, and with some conditions the severity might not be known until pretty late. Plenty of women would be fine with a baby that's just disabled, but if they learn the fetus is just straight up incompatible with life and will at best suffer for a short time and then die they want to spare their kid from suffering unnecessarily.
Hell, didn't doctor Tiller even help women take photos with their babies if they wanted after the procedure? Since yeah, most of these women are grieving mothers that desperately wanted the child and had a late abortion to spare it from suffering further.The goal of the procedure (morbid though it may be) is to give woman an opportunity to hold the baby and have a funeral for it. It's worth mentioning as well that few states even allow third trimester abortions in the first place.
I remember reading an account from a woman who hate a late term abortion on a wanted pregnancy because of fetal abnormality (I think it was trisomy 18 )and she said something that's stuck with me. That in that situation, you can give your baby either life, or peace. Both are precious gifts, and you have to decide which one is more important to you.
Fundies posted itt might love to hold up outliers with these conditions than somehow managed to survive for some time with a condition like trisomy 13 or 18 or anencephaly like Kayli or Jaxon Buell, but even to this day a majority of kids with those conditions die shortly after birth if they're born alive at all.
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