Abortion facts

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Abortion and the Bible

Educating others about abortion requires accurate information. Here are some important Abortion Facts.

  • A study by the Guttmacher Institute estimated that nearly 1.3 million abortions took place in the United States in 2002, equivalent to about 148 abortions per hour.[1][2][3]
  • When the number of abortions are included (as deaths of the unborn child), abortion was the most common cause of death in the United States in 2002. [4] (Heart disease, with 710,760 deaths, was a distant second.)
  • Abortion is the leading cause of death in Spain.[5]
  • "Forty-three percent of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27% as Catholic."[6]

34 years after Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court still has a pro-Roe majority. Moreover, since that fateful 1973 ruling, almost 50 million unborn babies have been aborted, and millions of mothers hurt physically, psychologically and spiritually... but a quiet revolution is under way... it is very visible down "on the street" – at the level of real life where women and girls make the desperate decision to solve their "problem pregnancy" by aborting...

And within many of those pregnancy care centers are the new "4D" ultrasound machines. When the abortion client lies down and experiences, for the first time, the reality of her unborn baby – and not a grainy, difficult-to-see old-fashioned sonogram, but a modern, crystal-clear image of her own baby – she does not go through with the planned abortion in the vast majority of cases. How the pro-life side will win the war

  • "fetus: the unborn offspring in the postembryonic period, after major structures have been outlined, in humans from nine weeks after fertilization until birth." Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary.


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Arguments Against Abortion

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1. Since life begins at conception, abortion is akin to murder as it is the act of taking human life. Abortion is in direct defiance of the commonly accepted idea of the sanctity of human life

2. No civilized society permits one human to intentionally harm or take the life of another human without punishment, and abortion is no different.

3. Adoption is a viable alternative to abortion and accomplishes the same result. And with 1.5 million American families wanting to adopt a child, there is no such thing as an unwanted child.

4. An abortion can result in medical complications later in life; the risk of ectopic pregnancies doubles, and the chance of a miscarriage and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease also increases.

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These four arguments are taken from:

"Ten Arguments For Abortion and Against Abortion, Abortion Pros and Cons, and Main Points of the Debate." By Linda Lowen, About.com [7]

Reasons for Abortions

Some countries only allow abortions under certain circumstances. The first two reasons are generally grounds for an abortion even in countries with restrictive abortion laws, and the third, though controversial, is also rather common. Below are some common reasons women have abortions:

  • The child being the result of rape or incest.
  • Risk to the mother's health or life
  • The child being born severely disabled, which may be criticised as a form of eugenics
  • Inability to care for the child, in which case adoption poses a better alternative

In addition, a ban on abortion may force a woman desperate for one to a backstreet abortionist, which poses massive health risks.

References

  1. ↑ Finer 2006
  2. ↑ Estimates of U.S. Abortion Incidence, 2001–2003, By Lawrence B. Finer and Stanley K. Henshaw, Guttmacher Institute, August 3, 2006, retreived 10/13/2008 [1]
  3. ↑ 1,287,000 abortions per year, divided by 365 days per year, divided by 24 hours per day, equals 146.9 abortions per day.
  4. ↑ Blount County Right to Life 2003
  5. ↑ Catholic World News 2007
  6. ↑ Guttmacher Institute, Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States, July 2008, retrieved 10/12/2008.[2] For this fact, Guttmacher cites Jones RK, Darroch JE and Henshaw SK, Patterns in the socioeconomic characteristics of women obtaining abortions in 2000–2001, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2002, 34(5):226–235.
  7. ↑ Ten Arguments About, Inc.

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