LogFAQs > #968450073

Generally, the point after which inducing premature delivery would be likely to yield a viable baby, mostly because aborting that late generally doesn't yield much by way of health and comfort benefits over just delivering the child, so you might as well save them. Obviously, medical necessity trumps this, when applicable.

That said, placing any limits on when abortions are allowed just opens up opportunities for governments to enact de facto bans by bogging down the approval process in enough red tape to delay the request past the deadline, and while that's my personal reasoning and I think it's pretty logical, my personal reasoning doesn't mean shit for somebody else's abortion. There should be no legislated limits, only doctors providing every pregnant woman with all of the information she needs to make an informed decision about her own body and pregnancy.