No matter what Forced Birthers say, women DO NOT wake up 22 weeks pregnant and put "Get an abortion today" on their To Do lists. It does not happen. Women who must have late pregnancy abortions need them for medical reasons, not financial or personal ones.

We cannot detect birth defects - especially Neural Tube Defects - until at least the 14th week of pregnancy. That's into the second trimester, and most women who are pregnant at the beginning of their second trimester are pregnant because they want to parent. (There are exceptions, but they are rare.) The women who must have abortions after this mark must have them because they will die or their child is already dead, going to die or unable to live out here. These women must make terrible and painful decisions: put their lives at further risk by carrying and trying to deliver a dead child or end the pregnancy and grieve for the lost child.

There are reasons: toxemia, hydrocephaly, anecephaly, eclampsia, spina bifida (and heavy metals poisoning is a known cause of spina bifida) holoprosencephalocele (where the brain does not divide), microcephaly, German measles, septicemia, cancer, parvovirus infection, intraventricular hemorrhage (visible on ultrasound only after the 16th week if visible at all), limb-body wall complexes, oligohydramnios (too little amniotic fluid), Rh incompatibility.

Any of these can happen to any woman and in any pregnancy. That they are rare is beside the point. They happen.

Perhaps the Forced Birthers out there need to look at the images that they don't want to face to get a dose of reality.

WARNING: Graphic Images in Links

http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/PEDHTML/PEDIDX.html#3
http://members.fortunecity.com/danilhammoudimd/neuro1/id26.htm