Many people who oppose your right to choose abortion and contraception do so out of genuine conviction. But all too often, those who oppose these rights rely on claims that aren't based on the truth to get their point across. Abortion is dangerous. Today, with modern methods refined by physicians in the generation that abortion has been legal, serious complications occur in well under one percent of abortions, with fewer than one death for every 100,000 abortions. Abortion complications are even less likely in the first trimester of pregnancy, when most abortions take place.
Abortion happens through all nine months of pregnancy.
In fact, one-half occur within eight weeks. Abortions in the third trimester, the point when fetuses are mature enough to potentially survive outside the uterus are very rare. They are less than one-fiftieth of one percent of all abortions, and in fact are only done when there are serious health problems for the mother or fetus. Abortion causes long-term psychological damage. The American Psychological Association, the world's largest organization of psychologists, and the Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Association report that there is no scientific proof that abortion causes long-lasting emotional trauma.