If it won't happen at any legitimate facility, then why do some legitimate facilities advertise/offer it?
Abortion after 26 weeks - Dupont Clinic | Gynecology & Reproductive Health | Washington DC
If you are 26 weeks or later into your pregnancy, we can still see you, regardless of your medical history, background, or fetal indications. We do not require any particular “reason” to be seen here – if you would like to terminate your pregnancy, we support you in that decision.
...but with regards to the sentiment about it being a non issue because "it only accounts for fewer than 1% of abortions", why is it okay for one side to build an entire moral case and semantically overload their proposal around a <1% subset of abortions, but it's considered wrong for the other side to employ the same strategy?
For instance,
Why can staunch pro-choice advocates brand their proposal as "Defending Womens' Health Act" or the like (when 'health reasons' is <1% of the abortions that take place)? Meanwhile, nearly a fourth give the reason "worried it will impact my career prospects" and another third say "not ready for a baby yet".
So instead of calling it "Womens' Health Defense Act", wouldn't a more appropriate name be "Making sure a mistake doesn't disrupt career prospects Act"...or does that not sound as noble?
But when staunch pro-life advocates fixate on a different <1% of abortions, (and uses a similarly semantically overloaded branding strategy) they're labelled as being inauthentic or disingenuous?
For the record, I'm not in the pro-life camp, but I think there's value in just biting the bullet and going with the "say what you mean, and mean what you say" approach.
It's very reminiscent of some of the "moral-sounding outliers" approach marijuana advocates used to employ before it was legalized in a lot of places. I'm in the pro-legalization camp for pot, but thought it was tacky when virtually every argument you heard about it was centered around "it helps cancer patients have an appetite" when everyone knew darn well that was the vast minority of people using it. ...and I told them something similar "Just say what you really mean:
I'm an adult, and I should be able to smoke weed in my living room if I want"
But you can't cling to a moral sounding outlier, pretend "that's what this whole thing is about", and then chastise the other side for employing the same strategy.