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Perhaps not physical health but mental, relationship, spiritual, financial health reasons. In my opinion, these all still play a part in a person's overall well being so they matter. I think that's very fair- and I think that's exactly the perspective that guides the few doctors who do perform these, too. Although I do think it's best to note this approach when we're discussing abortion, because a lot of people hear "for/not for health reasons" and think solely in terms of physical health and maybe in terms of DSM-style mental health, but usually not anything beyond that. If you do want to learn a little bit more about these kinds of abortions (again, quite rare), I can wholeheartedly recommend Dr. Shelley Sella's book Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care, and there are some examples that have been collected by researchers (Katrina Kimport's Is third-trimester abortion exceptional? Two pathways to abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy in the United States and her and Diana Greene Foster's Who Seeks Abortions at or After 20 Weeks?), as well as sometimes shared online (for example). I think it's fair to say that whenever an abortion occurs in the end of the second trimester or beyond, it's always at least one thing that has gone wrong to delay to that point, and oftentimes, a multide of things having gone wrong (including many things that we can and should fix, as a society).