When women have abortions

• 61.8% of abortions occur within the first 9 weeks
• About 88% occur in the first 12 weeks
• About 98% occur before 21 weeks

The embryo and fetus pictures came from this great NIH website.  The chart came from Guttmacher.  The motivation for this blog comes from a silly thought. If you can graduate from an American High School believing that a 12 week old fetus is a "blob of cells".  We have a major education problem in this country.