This observation/revelation by Andrew Sullivan via John Cole:
I have to say I am beginning to believe that these abortions, given their excruciating moral and personal choices, may be the most defensible in context of all abortions. And yet they seem to be taking life in a more viscerally distressing way. I need time to think and rethink these things. I would not have without reading these extraordinary accounts.
I can only imagine that an abortion at any stage is an extraordinarily difficult choice, but it must be easier (in context) to terminate a first trimester pregnancy knowing that the fetus or embryo is barely recognizable than a third trimester pregnancy that's basically a baby. If such a late term choice is made lightly and without sufficient medical purpose, it's generally not approved in the first place, but if it is, such cases have to be a very, very few in number.