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Old 06-21-2009, 12:56 PM   #117 (permalink)
Infinite_Loser
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Three things:

1.) Pointing out that men can't get pregnant is pretty disingenuous unless you're also going to point out that a woman can't impregnate herself nor is she a shark nor the Virgin Mary.

2.) 91/92%, approximately, of abortions are done for purely elective reasons (That is, unrelated to health concerns or fetal defects). Furthermore, less than 1% of abortions are done under "coercion" (Husband/bf/SO/family wanted her to have an abortion). An even smaller minority, less than 0.5%, are done because the female wants to hide the fact that she had sex from her parents (This is most relevant with teenagers).

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3.) 47% of abortions done yearly are repeat abortions. Broken down, 29% of abortions performed per year are done on those women who had one prior abortion; 11.8% on women who had two abortions prior; and 7.3% on those women who had three or more prior abortions. Or, stated another way, given 1.2M abortions in 2008 (Approximately), 348,000 abortions were performed on women who had one prior; 141,600 on women who had two prior; and 87,600 on women who had three or more prior. If that doesn't scream "Irresponsibility", I don't know what does.

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This is why I can't take the PC side seriously. They laugh at the notion of women taking abortion lightly, yet ignore the very statistics which show that the opposite is true.

They say they want to reduce the number of abortions, yet they not only refuse to restrict abortions to the most serious of cases on which they base the majority of their arguments (Rape, incest and concerns regarding the mother's health/health of the fetus), which would cause the number of abortions performed per year to plummet from about 1.2M to about 108,000 per year, but they (Well, at least groups like PP and NOW) protest against informed consent laws, waiting periods and parental/spousal consent laws, of which the majority of Americans support.

They say that abortions should be "safe, legal and rare", pointing to Western Europe (Which has an abortion rate of somewhere around 12.0) to make their case, but not only do typically liberal/PC states (States in the west, east coast and New England areas) have the highest abortion rates, in general, the states with the lowest abortion rates are generally conservative/PL (States in the midwest and South).

1.) New York: 38.2
2.) New Jersey: 34.3
3.) Maryland: 31.5
4.) Delaware: 28.8
5.) California: 27.1
6.) Nevada: 27.0
7.) Florida: 26.8
8.) Connecticut: 23.6
9.) Hawaii: 21.8
10.) Massachusetts: 19.9
11.) Michigan: 19.4
11.) Rhode Island: 19.4
13.) Illinois: 18.9
14.) North Carolina: 18.8
15.) Kansas: 18.4
16.) Oregon: 17.7
17.) Washington: 17.5
18.) Texas: 17.3
19.) Virginia: 16.5
20.) Georgia: 16.3
21.) Colorado: 16.1
22.) Arizona: 16.0
23.) New Mexico: 15.7
24.) Ohio: 14.9
25.) Tennessee: 14.4
26.) Pennsylvania: 13.8
27.) Alaska: 13.6
28.) Minnesota: 12.7
29.) Alabama: 11.9
30.) Louisiana: 11.7
30.) Montana: 11.7
30.) New Hampshire: 11.7
30.) Vermont: 11.7
34.) Iowa: 10.6
35.) Maine: 10.5
36.) North Dakota: 9.6
37.) Oklahoma: 9.5
38.) Nebraska: 8.9
39.) Indiana: 8.6
40.) Wisconsin: 8.5
41.) Arkansas: 8.3
42.) South Carolina: 7.9
43.) Missouri: 6.9
44.) West Virginia: 6.7
45.) Utah: 6.4
46.) Idaho: 6.1
47.) South Dakota: 5.1
48.) Mississippi: 4.9
49.) Kentucky: 4.4
50.) Wyoming: 0.7

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