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Originally posted by Huggles
Late term abortions, aren't they extremely rare, and used only when the mother's life is in danger and such?
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Last fall, both the Washington Post and the Bergen Record ran front-page stories asserting that pro-choice groups underestimate the number of "intact dilation and extraction" (IDE) procedures, to use the medical term, that are performed. In a piece that pro-life groups circulated all over the place, the Bergen Record's Ruth Padawer showed that one clinic in Englewood, N.J., had performed 1,500 IDEs in 1994. That is 1,000 more than pro-choice groups claimed had been performed in the entire country. After interviewing doctors who perform the procedure, both papers concluded that only in very few instances was the IDE actually necessary to protect the woman's health. Most of them were performed on poor women who could not muster the money to pay for abortions earlier in their pregnancies.