A 24-Year-Old Patient with an Intellectual Disability at 30 Weeks

A 24-year-old patient with an intellectual disability at 30 weeks' gestation asks when it is safe to have an abortion. How should the nurse respond to this patient?

A) "Have you been hiding your pregnancy?"
B) "The safe time to end a pregnancy has passed."
C) "Is it safe for me to assume that you don't want to have this baby?"
D) "I guess you didn't realize that an abortion should have occurred months ago."