The physicians' estimates jibe with state figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control, which collects data on the number of abortions performed. We've been looking for spokespeople on this issue. . . . When it's done The pro-choice camp is not the only one promulgating misleading information. Metropolitan Medical's staff won't do abortions after 24 weeks of gestation. The law is one thing.
Real life is something else.
Physicians who use the procedure say the vast majority are done in the second trimester, prior to fetal viability, generally thought to be 24 weeks. Full term is 40 weeks. Clinton offered the same message when he vetoed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in April, and surrounded himself with women who had wrenching testimony about why they needed abortions. The woman, Coreen Costello, wanted desperately to give birth naturally, even knowing her child would not survive. But because the fetus was paralyzed, her doctors told her a live vaginal delivery was impossible.