Only 1 percent of all abortions occur after 21 weeks of pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. Abortions during the final weeks are rarer still.
Doctors and abortion rights groups say it is extremely unusual for live infants to be born during attempted late-term abortions, which they say usually occur when the baby is extremely deformed or deemed unable to survive after birth. In such cases, families sometimes decide they want to induce labor so they can spend time with the infant before it dies.
Claire Culwell, an Austin woman who said she was born several weeks after her birth mother had an abortion, also spoke at the news conference. She was born two-and-a-half months early, several weeks after her mother aborted her twin, and said she knows about five other people like her in Texas.
"Do babies really survive abortions?" she asked. "I am here because we do. ... If I had been given a choice, I would have wanted to live. I would have wanted to be a Texan."
When asked what data there is about the prevalence, or lack there is, of this problem, Leach said it's mostly anecdotal. He did not know if any of the five people Culwell mentioned live in North Texas.
"We believe strongly that it is or it could be happening," Leach said. "One time is too many."
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