93% of abortions happen in the first trimester.[1] Preterm survival rates are zero at that time. The earliest known premature birth to survive was at 21 weeks, and that was an outlier; survival rate at 22 weeks is around 10%.[2] Fewer than 1% of abortions are performed after 21 weeks. [1]
In the US, premature births before 24 weeks are considered nonviable (meaning there is less than 50% chance they will survive.[2] And effectively all of those rates are in hospitals set up to go to heroic lengths to keep premature babies alive.
Abortion at a gestational age when it could happen at all is an edge case. Abortion at a gestational age where anything anyone did to save the baby would make any difference at all is an edge case to an edge case. There are effectively 0 abortions in which an abortion provider could discover a breathing baby and successfully transfer them to a hospital equipped to keep them alive.
Now we both know that it’s an edge case.