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by Ashley Crawshaw0 views·Updated Apr 1, 2022

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  1. To further relate to Thompson's idea of a separation rather than a killing.
  2. I included this figure here to the side.
  3. Um it states that in 2016 alone, nearly 88% of abortions occurred
  4. 12 weeks into the pregnancy,
  5. and in most cases it happened way before in the earlier weeks.
  6. Uh she would consider an abortion during this time period to be a part
  7. of her definition of what a what a detachment from the body is,
  8. rather than it being called a killing,
  9. Since the third trimester would be considered,
  10. the latter parts of like 20 plus weeks of a pregnancy.
  11. Um based on this figure,
  12. we can see that hardly any abortions compared to the majority
  13. we're done during this specific time period,
  14. our time frame,
  15. even though Thompson believes that uh this is closer to the idea
  16. of killing a fetus during the latter parts of a pregnancy,
  17. like in the third trimester, she still states that overall,
  18. the concept of abortion would still be a separation from the body instead