According to Pregnant Pause, the total casualties of all U.S. wars is a little over 1,150,000. The total abortions since 1973 is 31,000,000.
The website may be found by clicking on U.S. War Casualties.
Oct 062010
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Oct 062010
The Guttmacher Institute has the following statistics about abortion:
- “7% of women aged 15-44 are at risk of unwanted pregnancy but are not using contraceptives.”
- “The proportion of women who are at risk of unwanted pregnancy but not using a method increased from 5% in 1995 to 7% in 2002.”
- “One-quarter of the more than 20 million American women who obtain contraceptive services from a medical provider receive care from a publicly funded family planning clinic.”
- “Federal employees are guaranteed insurance coverage for contraception.”
Additional information can be found on the Institute’s website by clicking on Guttmacher Institute.
Oct 062010
The Guttmacher Institute has the following statistics about abortion:
- “Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion.”
- The number of abortions in the U.S. had decreased during George W. Bush’s presidency. In fact, abortions have declined in the U.S. since the early 1980’s.
- “At least half of American women will experience an unintended pregnancy by age 45”
- At current rates, about one-third of American women will have had an abortion
- “The abortion rate among women living below the federal poverty level ($9,570 for a single woman with no children) is more than four times that of women above 300% of the poverty level (44 vs. 10 abortions per 1,000 women).”
- “Fifty-four percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant.”
- “Eighty-seven percent of all U.S. counties lacked an abortion provider in 2005; 35% of women live in those counties.”
- “Fewer than 0.3% of abortion patients experience a complication that requires hospitalization.”
- “Fifty-eight percent of abortion patients say they would have liked to have had their abortion earlier.”
- “Nearly 60% of women who experienced a delay in obtaining an abortion cite the time it took to make arrangements and raise money.”
To read additional information, click on Guttmacher Institute.
Oct 062010
John Lott and John Whitley said, “We find evidence that legalizing abortion increased murder rates by around about 0.5 to 7 percent.”
Full Citation: Lott, John R. and Whitley, John E.,Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births(April 30, 2001). Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 254. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=270126 or DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.270126
Donohue and Levitt say “abortion is just as negatively related to crime as in our original analysis.” When taking into account the years between 1985 to 1997, “legalized abortion is once again strongly associated with reductions in crime.”
To read the entire report, click on Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime.
Oct 062010
According to the 2001 report by the United States General Accounting Office, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates received $184 million in 1999 and $196 million in 2000 in federal funds. The entire report may be read by clicking on Reproductive Health: Federal Funds That Supported Four Nonprofit Organizations.
According to a 2007 report by the National Right to Life:
- Planned Parenthood performed 264,943 abortions in 2005, double the 139,899 number it did in 1995.
- Compared to the 264,943 abortions, Planned Parenthood saw 12,548 prenatal clients.
The entire report may be read by clicking on Another Abortion Record at Planned Parenthood: PPFA Tries to Mask Crucial Role of Abortion to Its Mission and Bottom Line.
Oct 062010
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Law 91-572, “Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs,” was enacted as Title X of the Public Health Service Act, commonly referred to as Title X, or Title X Family Planning program. Title X was enacted in 1970, signed into law by Richard Nixon, a Republican president, three years before the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.
- “The Title X program is designed to provide access to contraceptive services, supplies and information to all who want and need them.”
- “By law, priority is given to persons from low-income families.”
- “In fiscal year 2007, Congress appropriated approximately $283 million for family planning activities supported under Title X.”
- “In approximately 75% of U.S. counties, there is at least one clinic that receives Title X funds and provides services as required under the Title X statute.”
- “In addition to contraceptive services and related counseling, Title X-supported clinics provide a number of related preventive health services such as: patient education and counseling; breast and pelvic examinations; breast and cervical cancer screening according to nationally recognized standards of care; sexually transmitted disease (STD) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention education, counseling, testing and referral; and pregnancy diagnosis and counseling.”
- “By law, Title X funds may not be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.”
The entire description may be read by clicking on Family Planning.
The National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association mentions that had “Title X funding kept pace with medical inflation since FY 1980, it would now be funded at $759 million, instead of its FY 2007 funding level of $283 million.” To read additional facts, click on Family Planning Facts.
Oct 062010
The Physicians for Life website mentions the following changes in abortion legislation:
- “In 1992, virtually no states were enforcing informed-consent laws; by 2000, 27 states had informed-consent laws in effect.”
- “In 1992, no states had banned or restricted partial-birth abortion; by 2000, twelve states had bans or restrictions in effect.”
- “In 1992, only 20 states were enforcing parental-involvement statutes; by 2000, 32 states were enforcing these laws.”
- “The number of abortions has fallen in 12 out of the past 14 years and the total number of abortions has declined by 21 percent since 1990.”
The article entire may be read by clicking on Pro-Life Laws & Politicians Reduce Abortions.
Oct 062010
The UN reported, “The overwhelming majority of countries, 97 per cent, permit abortion to save the woman’s life. In five countries, abortion is not permitted. Abortion laws and policies are significantly more restrictive in the developing world.”
To see the full report, click on WORLD ABORTION POLICIES 2007.
Oct 062010
According to G. Devereux, “Typology data on abortion behavior were gathered from 350 primitive groups. 20 groups are cited, e.g., the Aztec, the Inca, Achaemenid Persia, Islamic Persia, ancient Assyria, ancient Egypt, modern Egypt.”
Full Citation: In: Rosen H, ed. Abortion in America: medical, psychiatric, legal, anthropological, and religious considerations. Boston, Beacon, 1967. :97-152
Oct 062010
According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, “currently, over 60% of the world’s people live in countries where induced abortion is permitted either for a wide range of reasons or without restriction as to reason. In contrast, about 26% of all people reside in countries where abortion is generally prohibited.”
For more information about the world’s abortion laws, click on World Abortion Laws 2008 Fact Sheet.