HUDSON COUNTY, New Jersey (LifeSiteNews) — A pair of New Jersey abortionists are planning to open the first “all-trimester” abortion facility in the Garden State, taking advantage of its radical laws.
NJ.com reports that Dr. Kristyn Brandi and nurse practitioner Catherine Obando intend to open “Luminosas Wellness Collective” in summer 2026, to offer both abortions at any point in pregnancy and training for late-term procedures, the dearth of which partially contributes to the relative rarity of facilities specializing in it. The center also plans to offer HIV treatment, “comprehensive” OB-GYN services, and so-called “gender-affirming” care.
New Jersey is one of nine states with no gestational limit on abortion, but currently the closest options for New Jersey residents seeking to abort in the third trimester are in Maryland or the District of Columbia.
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“It’s up to us to create something. It’s up to us to build the systems that we want to work in, that we want to provide this exceptional care [i.e., the murder of late-term babies] in,” said Obando.
“Making sure we can train any provider who wants to provide [late-term abortions] is part of our model, so that way there’s a lot more of us,” added Brandi. “The reason why it’s important for people to access later abortion is the same reason people need access to abortion in general. It’s just that some people ended up coming a week or two later. It’s the same people, it’s the same circumstances, they just showed up at a different time.”
Abortion, the destruction of an innocent unborn baby in his mother’s womb, is never medically necessary or justifiable.
The news follows the opening of the RISE (“Reproductive Health, Inclusive Care, Support & Empowerment”) Collective in Colorado, another all-trimester abortion business meant to fill the void left by the retirement of notorious late-term abortionist Warren Hern.
Abortion defenders have largely attempted to downplay late-term abortions as rare bordering on nonexistent, while opposing any attempt to restrict them. But the facts show they are a very real problem.
According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute reviewed by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), while more than 90 percent of abortions occur in the first trimester, more than 50,000 abortions a year take place after 15 weeks (almost four months into pregnancy), and approximately 10,000 after 20 weeks (five months).
Further, CLI documents that various pro-abortion sources affirm most of these abortions are not sought for extreme alleged medical emergencies, as their defenders insist. A 2013 Guttmacher report admitted “data suggests that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment,” and Hern’s own published data found that “fetal abnormalities” ranged from just a fifth to a third of his clients – and that the most common of those “abnormalities” was Down syndrome, a condition that is neither a death sentence nor even a guarantee of an unhappy life.
Most frighteningly, in September 2024 the Family Research Council (FRC) wrote that “State-level abortion reporting statistics from nine states show that at least 277 infants have survived abortion since 2006.” Only eight states require reporting such data, and there are no federal reporting requirements on the subject, guaranteeing the real number is higher. Several former abortion industry insiders and policy scholars have told Congress or admitted under oath that infanticide after failed abortions happens beyond the notice of official numbers.
Yet for at least the past decade, congressional Democrats have consistently voted against both the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban most abortions after five months, with exceptions for rape, incest, and “medical emergencies”; and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would mandate basic medical care for abortion-surviving newborns with penalties that existing law lacks.
