I know this response is pretty delayed, and hopefully you've seen the movie by now and got a response to your question. I am just watching it right now and came to look at the comments here, and saw no one had responded to yours.
To answer your question, most (likely the majority, which is only 1% of all abortions) late-term abortions are done for medical reasons. The main reasons are either severe risk to the mother if she gives birth, or risk to the child. Many illness and deformities cannot be detected until later in pregnancy. The first two examples in this film are a baby whose joints are fused (meaning it cannot bend them; this child will never be able to walk, feed itself, sit down, etc), and the other is a fetus who did not develop half of it's brain. These are not easy decisions for women to make, and I know there are a number of these late-term abortion doctors who won't perform a late-term abortion on a healthy fetus.
Unfortunately, the anti-abortion camp in the US leaves this out of their arguments; they have no problem with our country becoming exactly what you just explained your country is. They don't care about the safety of the mothers, nor are they fighting for human rights for the sick and disabled children they claim to care about. Health care in our country is a joke, many low and middle income families don't have the medical care they need for extremely sick children, and severely disabled children are neglected and abused by the medical association. My aunt, who I cared for with my mother, was severely mentally retarded and disabled from birth. I can understand well why some women would not want to abort a child like her, even though I can't blame a woman who would want to. She couldn't talk, but she was a wonderful person and we gave her the best life that we could. By the end, we had to make the decision to take her off life-support, after years of fighting doctors who took one look at her and suggested we just stop feeding her because it wasn't worth her living. There were no pro-lifers outside her hospital door cheering on her life or fighting for her rights. The truth of the matter is, they can claim all the want to care about "children," but all they care about is taking away the rights and, possibly, lives of women. They don't care about creating a world where every child can grow into an adult where they are cared for. They are hypocrites.
Please don't listen to the propaganda that is teeming in this thread alone. Women who have third-term abortions aren't doing it because they feel like it; there is usually a severe medical reason, the baby is not viable, and it is a terrible and heart-wrenching decision. If you haven't watched this documentary yet, I really suggest you check it out. It's sad to think about the heartbreak the women go through, and the doctors are just as touched by it.
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