While the majority of abortions (89 percent) occur during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy, a significant number of late-term abortions still occur. Defenders of legal abortion claim that late-term abortions (those that typically take place after a fetus is twenty weeks old) account for only about one percent of all abortions. Let’s assume that’s true. Since 1.06 million abortions occur each year in the U.S., that still means about 10,000 late-term abortions occur annually. To put that into perspective, about 8,900 people were murdered in the U.S. in 2012 through the use of firearms.46
