Canada does late-term abortions - don't let the pro-aborts tell you it doesn't happen

The lie: 

"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 3^rd 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: 

• Canada does send women to the US for abortions
• the very late term abortion in Montreal was not a first for Canada
• every year there are many late-term abortions done in Canada
• and please note that all these abortions detailed below result in a live child who is left to die, they also just happen to be late-term abortions

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.

In 2019/2020 there were 10 born alive abortions performed 25-28 week gestation, and 1-4, 29 + weeks

There were also 999 stillborn abortions done this year, all > 20 weeks gestation. Some of these would be late-term abortions.

In 2018-2019 there were 5 born alive abortions done 29 + weeks, and 15 done 25 -28 weeks

There were also 902 stillborn abortions done this year, all > 20 weeks gestation. Some of these would be late-term abortions.

In 2013-2018 there were 8 plus an unknown number of born alive abortions done of 29 + weeks, and there were 27 done 25 - 28 weeks.

There were also 4,282 stillborn abortions done this year, all > 20 weeks gestation. Some of these would be late-term abortions.