All the abortion info you need to know

4. June 2009 by admin.

With Tiller’s recent murder, there’s been a whole lot of slandering of the pro-life crowd.  But whether or not anti-abortion activists are peaceful (and I assure you that if they weren’t, Tiller’s assassination wouldn’t have made the front-pages), I think most media outlets aren’t just missing the point of the abortion debate: they’re purposely using this event as a red-herring for propaganda purposes.  So here’s a little information that everyone should know about abortion itself.

American women have abortions for all kinds of reasons, but according to ABC news, the most frequently cited–and taking up an overwhelming majority of cases–are “not being ready for a child right now,”  already being a single parent, and “unfulfilled educational goals (1).”  So where does this place rape and incest?  Less than 1% of all total abortions (1).  Mostly, children were aborted for convenience.

Furthermore, people need to know that over one in five children are aborted in the US, but that this isn’t due to teenage pregnancy (2).  Actually, teenage pregnancy rates are incredibly low, with most abortions being had by women of color, generally in their 20’s and 30’s (3).  Actually, teenagers only comprised 6% of all abortions in 2004 (3).  So the reader needs to understand that abortions aren’t being committed by reckless kids crossing state borders out of fear, but rather being committed by older women who almost always cite factors of inconvenience. Read the rest of this entry »

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