Yes, those are what all of us would agree are babies by that point. However, what people are failing to understand is that no one is deciding to abort that late just to not have a baby. That NEVER happens. By that far along in a pregnancy, women have been thinking of names, putting together all the needs baby will have. She's been planning at that stage in expectation of bringing a baby into the world and loving it for the rest of her life. The tragedy in a late-term abortion is that the mother and her family are having to make such an excrutiation decision because something has gone catastrophically wrong in the pregnancy.

The notion that women choose late-term abortions just to be rid of "perfectly healthy" pregnancy is a lie. It's pure forced-birther propaganda. It NEVER happens. As I said above, the only time someone decides to have a late-term abortion is because something has gone catastrophically wrong. Moreover, late-term abortions are only something like 1% of all abortions.

For example, my mother had a stillborn at around six months. There was no chance that fetus would have been delivered alive – the fetal corpse had not developed facial features; it had no openings for those features, only bumps where they should have been. Mother and the doctors knew it was already a corpse. But she was made for weeks to "wait for her body to expel it" because the state in which she lived made no allowance for such a reason for abortion, inlcuding inducing early labor. She almost died to spend two days in labor delivering a corpse.

My great grandmother had 18 deliveries – 16 live births. She had two stillborns, one was past five months gestation, the other was nearly seven months. Both stillborns had been determined to be dead days before she had to go through labor to deliver corpses. In her case, at least, the doctors were legally able to induce early labor rather than forcing her to "wait for her body to expel it." There was no option for legal abortion.

History is full of women who needed access to medically safe abortions. Graveyards are full of women who died when something went catastrophically wrong in utero. That's why those decision should only be made between a woman and her doctors.

Government for damn sure has no part in the unfolding tragedy of families having to decide on a late-term abortion.