One in four babies are born alive following abortions at 23 weeks gestation, a study published in a peer-reviewed journal has found, showing that such cases are more common than previously supposed.
Published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the study examined 13,777 abortions from 15 to 29 weeks in the Canadian province of Quebec between 1989 and 2021.
The authors analysed the prevalence of live births following abortion attempts in the second trimester – the most shocking finding was that one in four babies aborted at 23 weeks were born alive (27.0 per 100 abortions).
Ten per cent of born-alive babies took at least three hours to die.
It was also found that such cases were increasingly common, from 4.1% between 1989 and 2000, to 20.8% between 2011 and 2021.
The findings come as a tearful midwife presented evidence to an Australian inquiry of abortion survivors left to die alone in a Queensland hospital as they gasped for breath. One infant lived for up to five hours.
Despite repeated attempts in the UK to find out the truth about abortion survivor numbers, the Health Department has stated that “data on how many infants have been born after a failed abortion is not held centrally”.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “As abortion increases around the world, the number of abortion survivors dying lonely, gasping deaths is reaching a horrifying new high.
“Despite pro-abortion lobby claims to the contrary, these cases are increasingly common, as this study shows, and point to a callous indifference towards young life that ought to shock all good people.
“In the UK there is a similar lack of care verging on heartlessness, as the lives of unborn children are increasingly part at risk at all stages of gestation, not only from DIY abortion but also continued attempts to decriminalise abortion.
“We can see what we are up against, and this study underlines just how important it is that the public is informed about the reality of abortion.”
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