Warning: Some graphic images will be in this blog and some of what I say may piss a few people off so remember that you are proceeding at your own risk, if you become offended easily by this topic I suggest you hit the back button now….

“Oh look, this is what abortion looks like, how gross is that? Look all these LATE TERM abortion photos, even though most abortions don’t happen late term this should gross out the pro-choicers” ~What must be going through a pro-lifer’s mind.

Here’s what they fail to tell you: Most abortions (58%) take place BEFORE the 8th week of pregnancy! 88% before the 13th week of pregnancy, so late term abortions are pretty rare (Sources: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5109a1.htm ) so what does the fetus look like during this time frame? Here’s the photos:

Week 8:

Week 10:

Week 13:

(Photos from http://www.pregnancy.org/pregnancy/fetaldevelopment1.php )

Now, what do the pro-lifers use as examples of abortions? For those of you who don’t know, here’s one of their pro-life websites for you to review:

http://www.100abortionpictures.com/Aborted_Baby_Pictures_Abortion_Photos/

You’ll notice that the pro-life website doesn’t tell you what week the abortion took place during, they want you to think that a fetus looks like that early in pregnancy. If that’s not a scare tactic then what is? The babies in those photos are late term abortions, 20-24 weeks, which only 1.5% of abortions taken place in that time frame (source: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5109a1.htm ), some past the 24 week mark, which is by the way only done for medical reasons, 24 weeks is the cut off date for having an abortion in the USA which means some of the babies in those photos were aborted due to medical reasons the others account for only 1.5% of all abortions.

So here’s a little hint for the pro-lifers who use late term and medical abortion photos as a scare tactic: We aren’t stupid, we know that the photos you are using are the minority of all abortions and some are even from medical abortions, so cut the crap and tell the whole story, not just the part that supports your view!