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Americans woke up to the alarming reality that new clinics in Colorado and New Jersey are now moving to provide abortions as late as 34 weeks of pregnancy, a timeline that most people rightly associate with a developing baby nearly ready for life outside the womb. These clinics are not theoretical proposals — they are opening their doors and scheduling appointments, and that should outrage every citizen who believes in the sanctity of human life and common-sense limits on medical practice.
In Colorado, the RISE Collective announced it has begun scheduling patients and says it will offer abortions up to 34 weeks “for any reason,” staffed by clinicians who have performed later-term procedures for decades. The RISE leaders openly recruit former staff from the long-criticized Boulder Abortion Clinic and pitch their operation as a continuation of all-trimester care in a state with few legal gestational limits. This is not compassionate nuance — it is a political decision to normalize ending pregnancies at a point when babies are clearly viable in many cases.
That very Boulder clinic shut its doors earlier this year when its longtime physician retired, but instead of that closure ending the practice of late-term abortions, former employees have reorganized and reopened under a new name, determined to keep performing the most extreme procedures. The transition from one facility to another shows this is an organized effort, not a sporadic medical necessity, and communities deserve to know who is responsible for these choices. Voters should also understand how concentrated expertise in later abortions has become institutionalized and exportable across state lines.
Meanwhile in New Jersey a nonprofit called Luminosas Wellness Collective is planning to open in Hudson County and explicitly aims to provide abortions up to 34 weeks, alongside gender-affirming care and other services. New Jersey’s move matters because most clinics in that state currently stop far earlier — many cut off in the second trimester — so this would be a dramatic expansion of late-term availability in a state already known as an abortion “safe haven.” The founders say they intend to open by next summer, making this a near-term policy reality rather than a distant idea.
The legal backdrop matters: states like Colorado and New Jersey already have statutes that impose no gestational limit, which means the law permits abortions throughout pregnancy even if most providers historically stopped sooner. But permission and practice are not the same, and the deliberate step to advertise and expand services to 34 weeks is a political choice aimed at normalizing the most extreme end of the procedure spectrum. Voters need to grasp that changes in medical practice often follow political decisions and funding priorities, not neutral science.
Pro-life Americans should not be lulled by the claim that later abortions are rare — they are rare only because there have been relatively few providers willing to perform them, but the opening of clinics specifically offering third-trimester procedures threatens to change that calculus. One report notes only a handful of providers nationwide previously offered care between 28 and 34 weeks, but that scarcity is now being addressed by activists who see late-term availability as a policy goal rather than an exception. This is exactly the reason we must push back through law and at the ballot box: to protect unborn children and support mothers with better alternatives than expanding late-term termination.
This is a political fight as much as a moral one, and conservatives must respond with urgency and clarity. Support pro-life candidates, fund pregnancy resource centers, and hold local officials accountable for zoning and licensing decisions that enable clinics to open and advertise extreme services. Our nation was founded on a respect for life and family; making room for late-term abortion clinics is a betrayal of those principles, and hardworking Americans should demand leaders who will defend the most vulnerable among us.
