Canada’s top medical journal admits late-term abortions are not rare
The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) confirmed in an article at the end of January that late-term abortions are happening in Canada, and that they are not rare.
The article, titled Time to change Canada’s stillbirth definition and regulatory framework, reports how Canada’s stillbirth rate is “artificially high” when compared to other countries because it includes abortions past 20 weeks in the count.
“Canada’s stillbirth rate is more than double that of comparable high-income countries and rising, in part because of stringent stillbirth registration criteria,” the CMAJ article states.
The criteria include the requirement for the “registration of all fetal deaths with a birth weight of 500 g or greater or a gestational age of 20 weeks or greater,” the article adds. “However, a key contributor to Canada’s international outlier status is the inclusion in stillbirth counts of fetal deaths that follow late termination of pregnancy (at 20 to 24 weeks’ gestation).”
In other words, late-term abortions are happening in Canada, they are being reported as stillbirths, and they are happening often enough to impact national statistics.
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