Ping!
Posted on 01/21/2015 7:20:04 PM PST by Morgana
The United States marks 42 years of legalized abortion in all fifty states at any time for any reason throughout pregnancy on January 22nd, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. Since that time, there have been approximately 57,762,169 abortions that have destroyed the lives of unborn children.
How is that number calculated?
A few years ago, in the document, “Abortion Statistics: United States Data and Trends,” National Right to Life Committee education director Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon issued an estimate of the number of abortions tabulated annually by the Centers for Disease Control and the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute up to that point.
pregnantwoman40Guttmacher receives numbers directly from abortion centers themselves and is the prime source for more current figures because the Centers for Disease Control has never tabulated accurate numbers of abortions. The CDC provides some help in tabulating abortion figures, but it relies on figures from state health departments, some of which rely on voluntary reporting — and it hasn’t had data from some states such as California and New Hampshire for more than a decade.
“Because of these different methods of data collection, GI has consistently obtained higher counts than the CDC. CDC researchers have admitted it probably undercounts the total number of abortions because reporting laws vary from state to state and some abortionists probably do not report or under-report the abortions they perform,” O’Bannon says.
Then, last year, O’Bannon calculated there had been over 56.6 million abortions — using Guttmacher estimates to determine the approximate number of abortions for 2013.
“Thus the 56 million+ figure comes from the mathematical application of the assumption that the Guttmacher numbers will roughly reflect the same declining percentage in the number of abortions that the CDC found,” he said at the time.
Since then, Guttmacher released a new report showing 1.1 million abortions in 2011 and showing abortions declining to historic lows. That report came early in 2014 and the CDC issued a report late last year. The CDC showed that from 2010 to 2011, the total number and rate of reported abortions decreased 5% and the abortion ratio decreased 4%, and from 2002 to 2011.
Because neither agency has abortion figures since 2011, abortions for years after that must be estimated based on old data. Because Guttmacher has the more accurate abortion records of the two, their figure of 1.1 million abortions is the most reliable per year. Adding that to last year’s total yields 57,762,169 — a number that may admittedly be adjusted slightly downwards assuming the trend of fewer abortions continues after the last reported totals from 2011.
O’Bannon previously had some excellent insights into the abortion totals:
The long term trend is fewer abortions, and the number is down significantly from 1990 when the country saw 1.6 million abortions a year. As one measure of the impact your work has had, if the number of abortions had remained at 1.6 million, more than seven MILLION more babies would have died.
The publication of data from the CDC last November is good reason to believe there is a new major downward trend. We obviously can’t know in advance whether the numbers Guttmacher will publish later this year will show the same drop off.
Despite the seeming precision, this is not an exact number. No such number is possible. There will always be missed abortions, missed abortionists. Adjustments, however careful, will always be imprecise. But given the data we have, we feel it is reasonable to assume that we have now seen at least 57 million lives lost since Roe.
Of course, we all know that we are talking about more than just numbers or statistics. The blood of more than 57 million aborted babies represents an enormous stain on our national conscience and a heavy burden on our hearts.
But these numbers also show us that our efforts have not been in vain. As noted above, if our nation had continued at the rate of 1.6 million abortions a year we saw in 1990, our cumulative total would have been approaching 64 million by now.
That would translate into approximately 7 million more babies alive today than would have otherwise been the case. That is the equivalent to the number of abortions performed over a span of six to seven years–living human beings alive today because of you!
Of course the Movement has a long way to go to return full legal protection to unborn children. But never underestimate the importance of what you, grassroots pro-life America, are doing.
What you do makes a real difference.
Those are people who could be paying into Social Security right now ... and helping out all those Baby Boomers!
If I hadn’t been born in 1960, I am 97% sure I’d have been one of them.
Just about every thing about the case was a made up lie. One would think that the case should have been reversed immediately when it was found the whole thing was false, even tho it was years later.
Those Justices may be the worst sufferers in Hell tho it is not for me to say. If they get justice in the afterlife they better hope it is as corrupt as what they gave, but I doubt they have any hope at all.
Jesus already said what these men should suffer, being thrown into a lake with a mill stone around their kneck rather than harm one of those little ones.
IT not longer matters what those children could have or would have done.
They're dead and murders killed them.
Which is precisely why the princes in power are hell-bent to import replacement workers.
Obama is PUNISHMENT for it all..
i.e. judges, police, politicians, medical personnel..
It’s a much larger number when u consider what number their children would have been.
“If I hadn’t been born in 1960, I am 97% sure I’d have been one of them.”
That depends. Was your mom prolife? I know my mom was.
Not counting the number of times abortionists murdered babies “off the books.” It is a cash business after all.
And not counting the untold numbers that have been killed with chemical weapons of mass murder.
My birth mother was a 17 year old who was made pregnant by a travelling salesman and had to move to another state to have me or her father would have literally murdered her. I was the put up for adoption and adopted at three months through Lutheran Social Services.
Ping!
“There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times.”
— Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg
The same could be said of abortions in America:
There were not 57,762,169 babies murdered; there was one baby murdered, 57,762,169 times.
Well, after 5 kids (possibly one still birth- never clear on that) I bet she might have thought about it... lol... just kidding
This is not meant to be critical, but what does that say about your mother?
Liberals are more outraged by the effects of Islamaphobia on Pakistani Taliban’s psyche than by 57 million dead babies.
That she was 17 in the 50’s. And she is my birth mother, not the one who raised me. I sure wish these pregnant young women today would follow her example instead of aborting a baby, don’t you?
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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions) (see Women's Health partway down the page)
The reasons fewer women died from abortions were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions — California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the charts carefully. When did maternal mortality rates start dropping significantly?
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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)
· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing
· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby
· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child
· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)
· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career
· 7.9% of women want no (more) children
· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health
2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health
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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?
Less than 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 55 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.6 million women. Or put another way; 34 babies are killed to save each woman.
Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.
Roe v Wade: FULL Text (The Decision that wiped out an entire Generation 33 years ago today - 2006)
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He wasn’t born in 1960. According to his bio, he was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. How much of that is true? I have no idea.
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