This article comes to us from Run with Life blog, July 27th, 2018.
CIHI stands for the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
 
More than 1,000 late term abortions in 2017-2018
by Patricia Maloney
Below is the latest data from CIHI (2017/2018) on Canada’s late term abortions.
(Update: I forgot to put the word “livebirth” in the four following statistics.)
There were 8 livebirth abortions done in Canada with a gestational age of 25-28 weeks.
There were 102 livebirth abortions done in Canada with a gestational age 21-24 weeks gestation.
There were 31 livebirth abortions done in Canada with a gestational age of 17-20 weeks gestation.
There were 5 livebirth abortions done in Canada with a gestational age of unknown gestational age and/or > 29 weeks gestation.
Totals:
910 late-term abortions in Canada resulting in a stillbirth.
146 late-term abortions in Canada resulting in a livebirth.
Last year’s numbers.
All of these 1,056 were late-term abortions (20 weeks or greater gestation).
These numbers do not include late-term abortions from Quebec, so this number could be and probably is higher.
Definitions from CIHI:
Stillbirths from Termination of Pregnancy:
“P96.4 Termination of pregnancy, affecting fetus or newborn”
Newborns from Termination of Pregnancy:
“P96.4 Termination of pregnancy, affecting fetus and newborn”
Stillborn Abstracting:
“A stillborn is any intrauterine fetal demise or termination of pregnancy occurring at or after 20 completed weeks of gestation in which the fetus shows no signs of life. A liveborn resulting from a medical abortion prior to 20 weeks is considered pre-viable for the purposes of classification and an abstract is not created.”
Posted by Patricia Maloney at 1:38 PM