As of right now abortions are only legal up to 24th week with some exceptions.

For late stage abortions IIRC you always need a doctor's approval after a certain point.

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https://reproductiverights.org/maps/abortion-laws-by-state/

Let's be clear.

Absolutely no one is 'aborting' a late stage pregnancy.

Anyone getting that far fully and completely intends on having a child.

There is not a soul having a late term abortion for any reason other than risk to the mother or viability.

Vermont has little to no restrictions on time, place, or consultation. So theoretically, up until the moment of birth you could get an abortion in VT. NH is set at 24 weeks(6 months) with exceptions after that time for life of the mother and/or baby. Im not aware of the restrictions or lack thereof for the other states.

Not to mention the fact that once a baby can survive outside of the womb the term “abortion” merely refers to inducing labor. Do these people think that doctors are pulling live babies out of mothers and committing homocide?

ETA: the only time an abortion is performed at a stage in pregnancy where the fetus would be viable outside of the womb are in cases where the fetus will not survive or will suffer for a short time and die. Forcing a mother to go full term with a baby that will die inside her or shortly after birth is about the most inhumane thing you can do to a person.

Signed, a mother whose child died the day it was born.

Tell your hick relatives to fuck off and stop trying to enforce their religion as law in our state.

No worries, your state is safe from my backward thinking relatives - they don't live in NH.

Tell them that they are wrong. So very, very wrong. Also, women are typically pregnant for 40 weeks, so at 41 weeks that's induction of labor, not abortion.

Abortion in NH is only legal up to the 24th week

You have incorrect information

as far as your question, that is what the hopes and dreams are for abortionists and their supporters. I do not questions that that will be their ultimate goal. There has also been debate on not doing anything for a child being born alive after an abortion attempt.

I guess people are just adamant about making sure nothing survives

People who advocate for abortion to be safe and legal do not “hope and dream” they can abort babies the day before they’re due. Your view is just as sick as the people who don’t want to allow abortion even if it’s to save the life of the mother.

That’s not even remotely true lol. Leave your echo chamber and speak to actual humans.

No. You’re not going to find a medically qualified physician who will perform an abortion for “any reason” that late in the game. They are only being performed for very rare cases and it’s always horrible. Parents have prepared their lives to bring a child into the world and some truly rare or terrible thing has occurred to where the abortion needs to be performed at that point.

Your family members are probably not going to care about actual facts or statistics but you should try reasoning with them on that front.

Holy far-right propaganda batman. This is just nonsensical slop. Less than 2% of abortions occur in week 20 or later, and virtually all that do happen later are because of medical emergency. If your position is so weak that you just have to make stuff up, might be time to reconsider your position 🤷🏻‍♂️

I miss when this sub was about cool NH photos, weekend events/happenings, and bizarre news...

So much trash in NH thinks abortion is a firm of birth control. Insulting to the women who actually need them.

Agreed, time to make a new sub that isn't full of depressing, odd or just disapointing nonsense every time I get a notification.

Create it, I'll join 👍

You can't just walk into a clinic and get an abortion. You have to make an appointment. Since some states are banning or making the procedure difficult to obtain, some women are forced to travel to other states, which is creating a backlog in states where it is legal. So some women are having to wait until a later stage of pregnancy than they were at when they first made their appointment. Even before ROE was overturned, in many places, you had to wait a week or more for an appointment.

Nobody decides at week 40 that they're going to have an abortion because they just don't want to have a baby. It just doesn't happen. And any late stage termination is due to medical considerations for the mother or the fetus. It's a decision that no state has any business making for a woman.

NH is 24th week with exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies and obviously risks to mother's health.

I would like to see the rape and incest exceptions added to the third trimester exceptions as there are several instances where the mother may not be able to seek one as they were under the control of another person.

Hell no. The only “abortions” that occur after 24 weeks in NH are for fatal fetal anomaly. In other words, the fetus will not be able to survive outside the uterus OR may die even before the natural process of labor and can place the mother at risk of sepsis, fatal clotting issues, amniotic fluid embolisms, etc. These are more often called inductions of labor because they are done within a hospital under careful medical monitoring of the mother because her health could also be at risk during the process. The fetus is birthed intact. If the parents wish to spend time with the baby they do (I’ve never seen any of them say no as these babies are very much desired- just will not survive very long once birthed).

It’s not at all like women just stroll in beyond fetal viability and go through the joint like a chop shop. In all my years having worked in this field I have never come across what these people call “late term abortions” or “live birth abortions”. My colleagues would say the same.

Source: I’m a CNM

Edit to add this link: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-northern-new-england/campaigns/new-hampshire-abortion-law

No one is pregnant for eight months and three weeks for funsies and gets a last minute abortion.

Late abortions only happen in fairly narrow circumstances and for specific reasons.

the phrase "post birth abortions" or "live birth abortions" has me seeing red every single time. It's like the person using it is telling me they know nothing about the reproductive process without telling me they know nothing about the reproductive process.

I'm sorry for your loss. <3