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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Statistics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.052428.14148@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 05:24:28 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:
- >
- >o Half of all minority pregnancies and one-third of all pregnancies in the
- >U.S. end in abortion.
- >
- So minorities have a slightly higher rate of unwanted pregnancies.
- And your point is?
-
- >o 77.5% of women who obtain abortions in the U.S. are unmarried.
- >
- So women who are unmarried are less likely then married women to want
- to have children.
- And your point is?
-
- >o 41% of women obtaining an abortion had previously had at least one
- >other induced abortion.
- >
- So women who have had abortions don't object to having another. Sort
- of dumps on the old "abortion trauma" myth, doesn't it?
-
- >o 75,000 admitted having had at least three previous abortions.
- >
- A clear argument for better contraceptive education, and further
- research into more effective, cheaper, easier to use contraception.
- Or did you have another point you wanted to make?
-
- >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.
- >
- Insignificant difference. Especially in light of the minority
- population of these cities, and the above "50%" claim for minority
- abortions.
-
- >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.
-
- Weak emotionalism. Just call the embryo/fetus what it is.
- Your attempt to compare abortion to the holocaust is cheap
- emotionalism, and smacks of anti-semitism to many of those who have
- personal conenctions to that time period.
- *yawn* All in all, a pretty feeble article, not unlike most of those
- submitted by the anti-choice side.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
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