(LifeSiteNews) — A Quebec study has revealed that over one in ten babies aborted in the second trimester are born alive, but only 10 percent live over three hours.
In June, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published “Second-Trimester Abortion and Risk of Live Birth,” a Quebec study which found that 11.2 percent of abortions in the second trimester have resulted in live births.
“It is more common for infants to be born alive following abortions than most people recognize,” pro-life advocate Melissa Ohden wrote in her weekly newsletter. “Sadly, most people don’t even know that babies survive abortions at all, or they’re led to believe there are just a few of us.”
“The terms ‘abortion survivor’ and ‘born alive infant’ are often polarizing terms, equated as fictional stories fabricated to restrict ‘reproductive rights,'” she continued “Still, these circumstances are simply a relatively understood, underreported, and under-studied reality.”
Indeed, the Quebec study revealed that a staggering number of babies are born alive after being aborted. The study analyzed 13,777 abortions performed on babies in the second trimester, between 15-29 weeks’ gestation, at Quebec hospitals from April 1, 1989, to March 31, 2021.
“Second-trimester abortion carries a risk of live birth, especially at 20 to 24 weeks of gestation, although feticidal injection may protect against this outcome,” the study concluded.
The study found that babies aborted in Labor Induction Abortions had a 15.4 percent chance of being born alive, while those aborted in Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) Abortions had a 0.2 percent chance.
Additionally, babies in weeks 20-24 had a 21.7 percent chance of being born alive, compared to a 3.4 percent chance at 15-19 weeks and an 8.5 percent chance at 25-29 weeks.
The chance of a baby surviving an abortion also depends on the age of the mother. According to the study, babies with mothers under 25 years old had a 5.5 percent chance, while babies with mothers aged 25-30 had a 14.1 percent chance. Finally, babies with mothers 35 years or older had a 12.6 percent chance.
Perhaps most surprising is that the number of babies born alive has drastically increased since 1989 when there was only a 4.1 percent chance of live birth. The number rose to 10.2 percent in 2001-2010 before jumping to 20.8 percent between 2011 and 2021.
READ: Pro-lifer Melissa Ohden shares how she miraculously survived horrific late-term abortion
Sadly, the study also revealed that most babies born alive do not survive, with only 10 percent living longer than three hours.
Indeed, only 24.5 percent of the babies born alive were admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) while only 5.5 percent received palliative care.
The significant number of babies born alive after being aborted calls to mind those abortion activists who push for the legalization of infanticide.
Since Canada has no laws surrounding age for abortions, many have blurred the line between abortion and infanticide, arguing that the latter is merely a late term abortion.
Just last month, Liberal MP Dr. Hedy Fry bizarrely implied that ‘newborns’ face increased health risks as ‘extreme right’ governments restrict abortion, a practice whose sole purpose to kill said newborn babies.
READ: Liberal MP bizarrely suggests that restricting abortion, contraception would harm newborn babies
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, in 2013, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government refused to investigate Statistics Canada data that reported that 491 babies were left to die after they were born alive following abortions.
“Abortion is legal in Canada,” he said at the time.
Similarly, in 2011, an Alberta judge suggested that infanticide is merely an extremely late term abortion while ruling in a case where a young mother strangled her newborn and tossed the corpse over the fence into the yard of one of her neighbors.
“While many Canadians undoubtedly view abortion as a less-than-ideal solution to unprotected sex and unwanted pregnancy, they generally understand, accept, and sympathize with the onerous demands pregnancy and childbirth exact from mothers, especially mothers without support,” the judge said.
Indeed, infanticide is often the next step for abortion activists who deny the dignity of human life, with many abortionists having been exposed for murdering babies born alive during abortion procedures.