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The report, which includes statistics for the year 2018, reveals that abortions killed 50,000 unborn children who had developed for 14 weeks or more. Almost 6,200 of those deaths were children who had reached 21 weeks gestation. Children who developed to that gestational age have survived birth and developed healthily with proper medical aid.
The CDC also noted a four percent increase in the number of late-term abortions between 2016 and 2018. Both the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute and the CDC agree that abortions completed on unborn children at 21 weeks gestation or later comprise 1-1.3% of all reported abortions.
Using this information, Live Action estimated that 6,196 late-term abortions occurred in states that choose to report abortion data to the CDC. This number would be lower than the actual total, since California, Washington D.C., Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and Wyoming did not meet reporting standards for the 2018 report.
