I remember years ago seeing an interview with actress Barbara Eden. She related the very sad story about how her second child died in-utero. They lost the heartbeat somewhere about the sixth month.
However, her doctors did not remove the child, but made her carry to full term, supposedly because that way provided the better outcome for her health. That horrible experience of carrying a child for weeks that she knew would be stillborn put her into psychiatric care.
Which raises the question, if her doctors would put her through that in order to preserve her long-term gynecological health, then aborting a child late term would be precisely the WRONG thing to do for it, no??
Eden’s story seems a bit strange - if your baby dies, there is no “full term” - which is defined by week of growth. Maybe they waited for labor to naturally induce - which should certainly not take several months. I’m no gyno, but did carry 3 to term myself, and my best friend lost one at 20 weeks and she had to deliver the child naturally, but it was pretty soon after he died.