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Originally posted by Double D
Legistate hundreds of millions of people? Do you mean hundreds of millions of women or fetuses? No one is going to force a late term abortion on anyone.
And in re: that .0000001% figure, got any statistics to back it up?
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This is an error of decimal misplacement and old data on my part.
According to the CDC (
link), there are roughly 12 deaths per 100,000 births per year, 60% of which occurred after the live birth and so would be prevented by an abortion. There are roughly 4 million births per year, which would equal about 480 deaths per year. According to the Census Bureau (
link) there are roughly 300 million people in the US, all of which would be effected by abortion legislation -- not just women who are pregnant right now. 480 deaths out of 300,000,000 people effected =
.00016%. So, legislation which supports abortion in the case of preventing deaths from pregnancy complications, is catering to .00016% of the population of the US.
Better?
