The abortion industry describes third trimester abortions as “later abortion care.”
The deceptive euphemism normalizes the ghastly procedure, which ends the lives of preborn babies between seven and nine months old, so abortion providers can profit from it.
Americans’ support for abortion drops as preborn babies develop and begin to look less like “clumps of cells” and more like what they are — human children. But the closer preborn babies are to birth, the more money abortionists make from ending their lives.
Third trimester abortions cost up to $25,000. More clinics have started performing the brutal procedure for a chance to cash in. RISE Collective began performing third trimester abortions up to 34 weeks last month in Boulder, Colorado. A similar clinic plans to open in New Jersey this spring.
To make money, these clinics must convince pregnant women it is acceptable — even normal or humane — to end the life of a child with an 80- to 90% chance of surviving outside the womb. They do this, in part, by calling third trimester abortions “later abortions” or “abortions later in pregnancy.”
The Kaiser Family Foundation claims the “medical community” uses “abortion later in pregnancy” instead of “late-term abortion” because the latter implies an abortion took place at or past a baby’s due date.
For all its concern about rhetorical implication, the pro-abortion medical community’s chosen term offers no information about the age of the child being aborted.
Nor is “abortion later in pregnancy” used in a consistent context. The Kaiser Family Foundation uses it to describe abortions after 21 weeks, when a baby can survive outside the womb. Warren Hern, the infamous abortionist behind the defunct Boulder Abortion Clinic, used “later abortions” to describe abortions in the third trimester
Boulder Collective, the fundraising arm for RISE Collective, uses inscrutable terms like “later abortion care” to solicit donations without revealing what procedures RISE performs, or how it performs them.
“When Colorado’s only later abortion care clinic closed in April 2025, it left an unsustainable gap for people needing specialized care,” Boulder Collective’s website reads. “Clinicians and administrators immediately responded by forming the RISE Collective to provide later abortion care.”
RISE Collective’s website advertises a staff “trained in areas where only a handful of clinics in the country have experience” and offers to guide customers through their “healthcare journey.”
Media outlets could choose to use more accurate terms, like “third trimester abortions” or “abortions after fetal viability,” to describe procedures offered by clinics like RISE Collective. Instead, many choose to adopt the abortion industry’s euphemisms.
“The RISE Collective plans to begin by offering later abortion care, where the greatest gap in service remains,” 9News wrote of the new clinic.
“People seeking abortions later in pregnancy could soon get them in NJ,” the New Jersey Monitor wrote of the New Jersey clinic opening this spring.
The abortion industry uses “later term abortion care” and its variations to make people uncritically accept the morality of third trimester abortions. Believers must reject this language in favor of describing reality.
Third trimester abortions intentionally end the life of a human child in the seventh, eighth or ninth month of its life and confer no legitimate health benefits on a mother.
That is murder. It should never be described otherwise.
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