Even among people who describe themselves as pro-choice, there’s a recognition that abortions later in pregnancy can be complicated. “A third-trimester pregnancy is not ‘a clump of cells.’ It is not ‘tissue.’” Dr. Shelley Sella, the first woman to openly provide later-abortion care in the United States, writes in her new book, Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care . “Although until birth it is technically a fetus, most would consider a third-trimester pregnancy a baby, and if it were born alive, it would be a baby.” This notion of “babyhood,” as Sella puts it, combined with the anti-abortion movement’s inflammatory rhetoric about later-abortion care and the myths that persist about what the procedure actually entails, make some people uncomfortable with the idea o

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