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Pro-Life Facts & Statistics
Facts & Statistics
Twin Oaks Presbyterian Church
Abortion Fact Sheet
1. Abortion is legal in all 50 states, through all nine months of pregnancy, for any reason.
Paul Benjamin Linton, "Enforcement of State Abortion Statutes After Roe: A State-by-State Analysis," University of Detroit Law Review, Volume 67, Issue2, Winter 1990.
2. 95-97% of all abortions are done solely for reasons of birth control.
(James Davis, General Social Surveys, 1972-1985 [Chicago: National Opinion Research Center, 1985]; cited in John Ankerberg & John Weldon, When Does Life Begin [Brentwood, Tennessee: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1989], p. 146); cited in Scott Klusendorf, Hard Truth Speakers' Guide, p. 13.
3. "The National Committee for Adoption estimates that two million American families are currently waiting to adopt a child."
Scott Klusendorf, Hard Truth Speakers' Guide, p. 11.
4. The argument for abortion is "a fundamental confusion between the concept of 'finding a solution' and the concept of 'eliminating a problem.' For example, one can eliminate the problem of poverty by executing all poor people..."
Francis Beckwith, Politically Correct Death, pp. 61-62.
5. Abortion Practice, the standard text in the abortion field calls pregnancy a disease that can be treated by either prenatal care or abortion.
Warren M. Hern, Abortion Practice, pp. 7-10.
6. Demographers note that it takes 2.1 births per woman of childbearing age to keep population rates at the replacement level (i.e. at zero population growth.) The U.S. rate, as high as 3.6 in 1955, plummeted to 1.8 by 1976 and has stayed there ever since.
Allan Carlson, "The De-Population Problem," Human Life Review, (Spring, 1987), p. 31.
7. "It's time to rebut the hysterical lie that America can't afford to take care of sick people and poor children. Consider the following examples of U.S. consumer spending habits which suggest that perhaps we have the resources to care for all Americans without having to kill one another in the process."
| candy |
$6.0 billion per year |
| recreational vehicles |
$8.9 billion per year |
| ice cream |
$10.0 billion per year |
| non-beer alcohol |
$39.0 billion per year |
| beer |
$50.0 billion per year |
| restaurant |
$173.8 billion per year |
| legal gambling |
$300.0 billion per year |
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8.Gregg Cunningham, "No Scarcity of 'Scarcity' Propaganda,' In Perspective, Vol. 5, Issue 5, May, 1994.
9.Edouard Sakiz, the president of Roussel-Uclaf, the manufacturer of RU486, says:
o"as abortion procedures go RU-486 is not at all easy to use."
o"it is much more complex to use" than vacuum aspiration.
o"the woman has to live with her abortion for at least a week with this technique."
o"it's an appalling psychological ordeal."
Le Monde, August 1, 1990; Guardian Weekly, August 19, 1990.
10.RU486 abortions call for at least four separate doctor visits over a period of 3 weeks.
Newsweek, April 17, 1989; cited in George Grant, The Quick and the Dead (Wheaton: Crossway Books,1991), p. 54.
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Last Published: March 15, 2008 2:14 PM
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