What is the Coalitions position on late-term abortion?
The Coalition believes that this issue should be left up to the individual member groups. In a policy position taken March 5, 1982, the Board of Directors stated that late-term abortion should not be a focus of the Coalition. Our focus is supporting choice and striving for religious freedom. Anti-choice groups have used the issue of late-term abortion as fodder in their propaganda war against women. They claim that late-term abortion is a common practice. In fact, late-term abortions are extremely rare. Ninety-one percent of all abortions are in the first 12 weeks. It is ludicrous to suggest that women would carry healthy pregnancies for seven or eight months and then have an abortion on a whim. Yet this is the anti-choice argument! On the rare occasions when women have third-trimester abortions, they do so because their fetuses have severe or fatal anomalies or because the pregnancy endangers their lives or health.
