In the past when I reported on Canada's late term live-birth abortions, Quebec's numbers were always excluded from CIHI's data. For the first time, I have now received Quebec's numbers for 2023/2024.
I originally reported 123 abortions for 2023/2024 for Canada, and now we know that Quebec performed an additional 27 of these late term born-alive abortions for a new total of 150.
Born alive and stillbirth late term abortions for 2023/2024. Totals for late-term born alive/stillbirth abortions combined, are more than the total for the previous year by 125. Comparison of the last five years below.
That is 642 late-term born alive abortions in just five years.
That is 5,738 late-term stillbirth abortions in just five years.
'In Quebec, induced abortions during the second trimester of pregnancy result in a live birth more than one in ten times (11.2%). Of these live-born fetuses, one in ten survives more than 3 hours. These are the findings of a study published in June 2024 in the scientific journal American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (AJOG).
The study was based on all second trimester abortions (13,777) performed in the hospitals of Quebec between 1989 and 2021. In Quebec, the law does not stipulate a maximum time limit for performing an abortion. The researchers found that abortions performed during the second trimester of pregnancy due to fetal anomalies doubled between the period 1989 - 2000 and 2011-2021. At the same time, they observed a significant increase in live births following a second-trimester abortion: the rate of 4.1 live births per 100 abortions in 1989-2001 climbs to 20.8% for the 2011-2021 period.
This is particularly true for abortions between 20 and 24 weeks of amenorrhea (18-22 weeks of pregnancy): in this case, more than one fetus in five is alive at the time of expulsion (21.7%).'
The pro-abortions always like to say that these late-term abortions are always done because of fetal anomalies or the health of the mother. But in 48% of these cases, the Quebec abortions took place for "personal or unspecified reasons" on a healthy fetus:
'The study showed that in 48% of second trimester abortions in Quebec, i.e. almost half the cases, there was no medical indication on the fetal side, nor any medical emergency on the maternal side. In these cases, the abortion took place for “personal or unspecified” reasons, on a healthy fetus.'
So many lies.
"A popular, misleading claim about late-term abortions has made its way to the province."
This comes from the very first line of a CTV article about late-term abortions, live birth abortions in Alberta.
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/
"That's just inflammatory propaganda that has no basis in fact," Joyce Arthur
These children are born alive after a failed abortion. Then they die. Not propaganda.
The only misleading item here is this CTV story. There's nothing misleading about these born alive abortions. They happen. Every year. In Canada. In every province. Not just Alberta.Statistics Canada continues to report live birth abortions. There were 410 of them from 2018 to 2022. Code is P96.4 Termination of pregnancy affecting fetus and newborn.
Speaking of Canada's shameful practice of allowing aborted babies to die after being born, I did an ATIP to the RCMP regarding this story, that you may remember:
"On January 23, 2013, three Conservative MPs (Maurice Vellacott – Saskatoon-Wanuskewin, Wladyslaw Lizon – Mississauga-Cooksville, and Leon Benoit – Vegreville-Wainwright) wrote a letter to RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson calling for a criminal investigation into the deaths of 491 babies born alive after abortions but left to die. The deaths occurred between 2000 and 2009. Vellacott wrote a letter of clarification after the initial erroneous media coverage, saying “contrary to what some of the media have been reporting, my colleagues, Leon Benoit and Wladyslaw Lizon, and I did not ask the RCMP to investigate any/all abortions after 19 weeks as possible homicides.?? He explained, “our request to the RCMP was not about the deaths of preborn children, but rather the deaths of children who had already been born alive and who are, therefore, recognized as ‘human beings’ in Canadian law.??"
This is what I asked for:
"I would like to see all documentation (emails, letters, briefing notes, etc.) related to this request to the RCMP; that is, to and from the MPs and the RCMP. Also all documentation to and from the RCMP and any other government organization including the PMO, regarding this MP request for an investigation of possible homicides to the RCMP."
This is what I received back. Other than Maurice Vellacott's own letters, there are only two letters from Commissioner Bob Paulson to Mr. Vellacott. No other documentation of any kind to show that the commissioner did anything with the complaint.
A couple of points to note:
First, the Commissioner never acknowledged Mr. Vellacott's letter because he thought the "RCMP's public acknowledgement...was sufficient to confirm reception". Perhaps an actual response letter to Mr. Vellacott would have been in order? It's called common courtesy.
Second, the Commissioner summarily dismissed Mr. Vellacott's complaint of possible criminal behaviour regarding these born alive abortions. Without any reason, and without any investigation on the very serious allegations. Even when Mr. Vellacott details the pertinent criminal code section, which at the very least should give someone pause:
223 (1) A child becomes a human being within the meaning of this Act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother, whether or not
(a) it has breathed;
(b) it has an independent circulation; or
(c) the navel string is severed.
Killing child
(2) A person commits homicide when he causes injury to a child before or during its birth as a result of which the child dies after becoming a human being.
"The Statistics Canada figures you reference in your correspondence purportedly represent occurrences recorded in regulated medical facilities involving medical practitioners, who must abide by their professional obligations..."
Fourth, the commissioner's using the word purportedly shows that he didn't even bother to reach out to Stats Canada. Otherwise he would have learned that yes indeed, these are late term abortions where a child dies after it is born. It is not purportedly at all. Does he not trust Stats Canada?
Fifth, just because these abortions happen in regulated facilities, does that mean that we don't investigate possible occurrences of criminal behaviours? Think of Kermit Gosnell, the master of botched abortions.
Sixth, "Your assertion that some, any or all of these occurrences constitute a crime requires an untenable contortion of the Criminal Code..." How could it be an untenable contortion if you didn't investigate? The Commissioner's pro-abortion bias just oozes out from his choice of language.
Seventh, it is bizarre that Mr. Paulson was provided with both the data of the possible crimes and the Criminal Code citation, and then evasively indicates that the public is supposed to do his investigation for him.
Of course, we all know there is one set of rules for pro-life people, and one set of rules for pro-abortion people. Commissioner Paulson, on his own, without any investigation whatsoever into these very serious allegations, decided they had no merit.
Last year there were 127 live-birth abortions. This year there were 149. That's an increase of 22 babies born alive after a late term abortion.
Six of these babies were greater than 29 weeks gestation.
There were also 911 late-term stillbirth abortions (Greater than 20 weeks gestation).
These numbers exclude Quebec born alive abortions. I'm not sure if I noticed this before.
"Table 1: Number of stillbirths resulting from termination of pregnancy...excluding Quebec"
"Table 2: Number of livebirths (with gestational age => 20 weeks) resulting from termination of pregnancy in acute inpatient settings in Canada (excluding Quebec), by province, 2021-2022"
"Table 3: Number of livebirths (with gestational age => 20 weeks) resulting from termination of pregnancy in acute inpatient settings in Canada (excluding Quebec), by gestational age (in weeks), 2021-2022"
"No providers in Canada offer abortion care beyond 23 weeks and 6 days. When they are beyond 23 weeks and 6 days, many Canadians end up having to travel to the United States to access services with little guidance or support from their governments."
Regarding the grim case of a recent 38 week old fetus being aborted in particular, I received this question from someone:
"I was led to believe in the past that 3rd trimester abortions for Canadian Women were actually done in the US as their weren’t doctors to do them in Canada. Is that correct? Also was this one done in Montreal a first in Canada? Really having a hard time getting my head around this."
The short answer is:
The problem is that the pro-aborts would have us believe that these horrific abortions are rare. They are not.
Below is what we know for sure, but as always, there is a lot of data missing from this. All this information below comes from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). So please don't shoot the messenger.
NOTE: There are also stillborn abortions listed in the links below. Because gestational ages are not provided for stillborn abortions, I am not including them in my calculations below, except to identify their numbers. All of these stillborn abortions reported by CIHI are > 20 weeks gestation. Therefore, there would definitely be late-term abortions in these numbers, we just don't know how many.
Born alive abortions
NOTE this from CIHI:
"in accordance with CIHI’s privacy policy, cells with counts of 1 to 4 are suppressed. These are represented by N/R (Not reportable) in the table. Suppressed cells are excluded from the totals."
What this means is, that when you see a cell containing N/R, there are 1 to 4 of these abortions for that gestational age.
In 2020/2021 there were 8 born alive abortions 29 + weeks, and 8 between 25 and 28 weeks.
There were also 935 stillborn abortions done this year, all > 20 weeks gestation. Some of these would be late-term abortions.
There are some who say Canada does not perform late-term abortions. They are disinformation abortion lobbyists. (AKA Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights)
"No providers in Canada offer abortion care beyond 23 weeks and 6 days. When they are beyond 23 weeks and 6 days, many Canadians end up having to travel to the United States to access services with little guidance or support from their governments."
According to CIHI, here are the 2020-2021 numbers. These abortions are not only late-term abortions, they are also born-alive abortions.
In 2020/2021 Canadian abortion doctors performed:
18 of these horrific abortions at 20 weeks gestation
93 of these horrific abortions from 21-24 weeks gestation
8 of these horrific abortions from 25-28 weeks gestation
8 of these horrific abortions 29 weeks gestation and older
That's 127 born alive abortions in one year. That's 15 more than there were in 2019/2020
To add to this horror, there were 935 stillbirth abortions performed of 20 weeks and later gestation.
If this isn't something to weep over I don't know what is.
Action Canada claims:
"No providers in Canada offer abortion care beyond 23 weeks and 6 days. When they are beyond 23 weeks and 6 days, many Canadians end up having to travel to the United States to access services with little guidance or support from their governments."
Not true. In fact in 2019-2020, there were 84 live birth abortions of 21-24 week gestation, and 10 live birth abortions of 25-28 week gestation in Canada. That is not none. And it is for one year only. And these numbers do not include Quebec abortions. These are abortions that fail, resulting in a live human being being born. And left to die. That is something. And we should all be ashamed.
A few of my posts on born alive and live birth abortions.
https://run-with-life.blogspot.com/2021/04/statistics-canada-vs-cihi-late-term.html
https://run-with-life.blogspot.com/2020/03/late-term-live-birth-abortions-in.html
https://run-with-life.
https://run-with-life.
