Posted on 01/23/2006 5:41:22 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--In what can only be described as tragic, the United States likely experienced its 47 millionth legal abortion at some point in 2005, more than three decades after the Supreme Court issued its infamous 1973 Roe. v. Wade decision legalizing the killing of the unborn.
The statistic is based on data since 1973 gathered by the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute and on estimates by the National Right to Life Committee. In the first full year of abortion legalization nationwide (1974), Guttmacher counted 898,600 abortions. That number reached a peak of 1,608,600 in 1990, before falling to 1,293,000 in 2002.
Since 1975, the United States has witnessed more than 1 million abortions each year. Unless the nation's laws are changed, the number of abortions post-Roe will pass 50 million in 2008.
"It's an unspeakable tragedy," Randall K. O'Bannon, director of education and research at National Right to Life, told Baptist Press. "That [47 million] is higher than the population of some countries. That would be wiping out a number of whole states. The world was appropriately horrified and shocked when we lost about a couple thousand people on Sept. 11.... What we're talking about here is that sort of loss multiplied dramatically."
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How can anyone support this modern day Holocaust, much less want it to continue?
In particular Senators Kennedy (Lard Ass), Kerry, Feinstein and co. have much to answer for.
So sad.
They have no sense of humanity. Here is something I wrote several years ago.
I Was Yours
Momma don't cry, you didn't want to hold me.
Momma you've got pride,
No cries from my cradle,
Momma you're alive, why did you hate me?
You didn't even try,
When the Doctor came to take me.
Momma oh why, didn't you love me?
You didn't see my eyes, my fingers, my toes,
You never even saw my cute little nose,
Momma I was your little baby...
Did you look to your tummy when I was
inside?Did you feel my kick, when I was
alive? Momma I loved you, didn't you know?
I needed you Mommy, I needed to grow.
I needed your kisses; I needed your hugs,
I needed to feel, that I was loved.
You said it was your choice,that I must die,
That I wasn't really, really alive...
You weren't ready for me, but I had no
choice,you were my Mommy, I was yours.
Thank you. Deeply moving.
I've always been against abortion but I recently read a book called "Freakonomics" in which the author stated that the declining crime rate of the past 10 years was attributed to abortion. The author made the case that many of the people aborted would have turned out to be criminals because they were unwanted and would have grown up either neglected or in poverty. While I can understand how offensive that would be to some, it was hard to refute some of the points made in the book.
On that basis, there are many cities that should be nuked!
No wonder we are allowing so many illegal aliens in to take the jobs the aborted ones would have had.
Just think of what this will do to the Social Security system as so many are not paying into it because they were aborted.
On the other hand, those aborted probably would have been the "children" of liberals had they been born.
I've always said that abortion should only be legal for liberals.
Thanks for the piece. What a horrible world...
Almost 8 Holocausts, and a good junk of the nation could care less.
Sam, I can't believe you actually wrote that..."Freakonomics?"
The blood of over 47 million babies is on the heads of our Supreme Court, just as surely as it is on the mothers who killed them, and the monstrous doctors who took a Hypocritic Oath, instead of the Hipocratic Oath. There will be a special place in Hell for those who have offended God in this grotesque way.
Troll
No, it wasn't me that wrote that. I was just quoting from it. I can't think of the author's name right now.
RE: Post #4: You've been aborted...
#3 is disgusting, IMO.
It's about a wife & husband who, after a funeral for an old man, find a woman weeping & praying at a small gravestone with the name "Tilly" and only the date of death.
The wife, Kathy Ross, is troubled and sleepless for a week...until she's in a dream one day...
Meanwhile, her husband Dan Ross seeks the story behind the grave of "Tilly".
Seperately, they both rediscover a daughter they had aborted 9 years ago.
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