Photo: Jemarius Jachin Harbor, Jr., born at 21 weeks gestation in December 2019 at Emory University Medical Center in Decatur, Ga., is the youngest preemie ever to be born. His mother, Jessica McPherson, had lost her previous two pregnancies at 22 weeks. She told Fox 5 Atlanta: “We looked at each other in the eye and I told him just give it a try. I just want you to try as long as you try that’s all that matters to me, don’t just up and say that you can’t do it. Just ‘cause you haven’t done it doesn’t mean it can’t be done.”

By TATIANA PROPHET

Every year in the United States, between 7,000 and 15,000 fetuses are aborted late in their development (21 weeks or more). More than half are healthy.

Wait, this can’t be true – right? Only 1 percent of all abortions are after 21 weeks. With total annual abortions hovering over or under 1 million, that 1 percent is actually a lot of procedures.

By abortion advocates’ own admission, the number of late-term abortions per year is roughly 15,000.

Further, according to the same study, most late-term abortions are elective.

“The body of research on women who have dealt with fetal anomalies or life endangerment … describes … pregnancy wantedness and tragic circumstances,” wrote Professor Diana Greene Foster in 2013. “But data suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.”