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Late-Term Abortion Procedures

What is the most common type of late-term abortion procedure?

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Roughly 15,000 abortions are performed each year in the U.S. at 21 weeks or later. At this stage of development, humans can sleep, awake, suckle, hear sounds, and feel pain. The most common procedure used for these late-term abortions is dismemberment, often while the human is still alive. This procedure is illegal for slaughtering livestock under federal humane law and is illegal for killing “living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians” under the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act. Contrary to the claims of media outlets and “fact checkers,” multiple public disclosures by abortion providers show that most late-term abortions are elective, not for medical reasons.

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Climate & Fossil Fuels

UN Secretary-General António Guterres claims that “the climate crisis” and “fossil fuel interests” are “killing our planet” while “pounding lives, livelihoods and economies.”

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IN FACT, broad climate-related measures of environmental and societal well-being have stayed level or improved for the past 40–200 years, and fossil fuels provide massive benefits to mankind. Here are the specifics:

Contrary to a 1989 UN prediction that global warming “will be destructive to natural systems” like “plant” life, a 2025 paper in the journal Remote Sensing Applications found a “striking global greening trend, with a significant portion of the Earth’s terrestrial land surface showing increases in vegetation cover over the past four decades.”
Likewise, a study published by the journal Nature Climate Change in 2016 found “a persistent and widespread increase” in “greening” or plant growth “over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area” from 1982 to 2014, “whereas less than 4% of the globe” had less greening over this period.
Contrary to a 1989 EPA prediction that “global warming” may cause “20 percent of the earth’s species” to go extinct before the year 2000, a prominent scholarly journal published a study in 2025 which found that “extinctions related to climate change have not significantly increased over the last approximately 200 years,” and extinctions have not “been accelerating in recent decades, but instead have declined in the largest group of animals and in plants.”
Contrary to a 1989 UN prediction that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000,” a study published by the journal Nature Climate Change in 2016 found that the net amount of land area on Earth grew by about 22,400 square miles from 1985 to 2015, and the net amount of coastal land area grew by about 5,200 square miles.
Contrary to a 1989 UN prediction that global warming will “disrupt agriculture” and “adversely” affect “food supplies,” the average daily food supply per person increased by 10% from 2000 to 2023, with gains of 7% in Africa, 22% in China, and 11% in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Contrary to a 1989 UN prediction that “rainfall patterns would likely be substantially altered” from global warming “by the year 2020” and cause “water shortages in some areas,” a study published in 2022 by a prestigious scholarly journal found that measures of rainfall “do not show any substantial changes at the global scale in at least the last 120 years,” and there is “a statistically significant decline of the percentage of land area affected by drought conditions” from 1950–2020.
Contrary to a 1992 prediction by Al Gore that “about 10 million people in Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades,” the population of Bangladesh has grown by 42% since then.
Contrary to a 1992 prediction by Al Gore that “up to 60% of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated” “not long after” the “next few decades” due to global warming,” the coastal population of Florida has grown by 67% since then.
Contrary to a 1995 New York Times prediction that “most of the beaches on the East Coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years” due to global warming, none of them have disappeared.
Contrary to a 2004 prediction by a Harvard professor that “we expect more and more intense tropical hurricanes and cyclones” “as the world warms,” global hurricane frequency and intensity have been roughly level for as far back as data extend (1979).
Contrary to a 2007 NASA prediction that the “Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012,” summer Arctic sea ice has remained roughly level since then and was higher in 2026 than 2007.
Contrary to a 2008 Newsweek prediction that “global warming” could cause “starvation due to drought,” the portion of the world’s population that was undernourished decreased from 13% in 2001 to 9% in 2022.
Fossil fuels provide 78% of all energy in the U.S. and roughly 82% of all energy in the world.
This energy vastly improves standards of living and helps people accomplish tasks like transportation, heating and cooling homes, farming, cooking, manufacturing, and communicating.
To manually generate the average amount of energy used by each person in the U.S. would require 197 people working nonstop around the clock.
Fossil fuels are the most economical source of energy, and a diverse array of scholarly publications document that affordable energy is “essential for public health and economic prosperity,” while high energy prices drive up hunger, drive down wages, stoke unemployment, and harm people in a wide variety of other ways.
While ignoring all of these facts, Guterres alleges that addressing “the climate crisis” is a “fight for our lives and our children’s future” and that “developed countries” must pay “at least $300 billion a year” to stop it.

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