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- From: rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston)
- Subject: Re: Statistics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.211403.23776@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1993Jan11.142445.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:14:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.142445.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> mcmillan@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- >Some abortion statistics according to the Abortion Surveillance Report of the
- >Centers for Disease Control:
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- >o Half of all minority pregnancies and one-third of all pregnancies in the
- >U.S. end in abortion.
- >
- >o 77.5% of women who obtain abortions in the U.S. are unmarried.
- >
- >o 41% of women obtaining an abortion had previously had at least one
- >other induced abortion.
- >
- >o 75,000 admitted having had at least three previous abortions.
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- >o States reporting the highest abortion ratio include: California, where
- >40% of all pregnancies end in abortion, and New York, where 34.4% are
- ^^^^^
- >aborted. In New York City, 42% of all pregnancies end in abortion.
- >
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- If 1/3 is average, then so is 34.4% (approxiamately).
- Make up your mind.
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- >A comment: over 20 million unborn infants have been aborted since RvW in
- >1972. This is three times the number of Jews that were killed by the Nazis in
- >World War II.
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- It is also but a fraction of the number of people who have died in
- religious wars. Use your brand of logic to conclude as you wish.
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- Robert Johnston
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