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Abortion saves lives
“El aborto terapeutico, salva vidas” sums up in Spanish the latest research from the Guttmacher Institute: Abortion-on-demand saves women’s lives.
In research published last week, the Guttmacher Institute looked at world-wide abortion trends and the number of unsafe abortions from 1995 to 2003. Researchers found similar abortion rates in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and lower rates in North America. Their conclusion: Pro-abortion laws don’t mean more abortions, and pro-life laws don’t mean fewer abortions – just more unsafe abortions. Beth Fredrick of the International Women’s Health Coalition said, “The legal status of abortion has never dissuaded women and couples, who, for whatever reason, seek to end pregnancy.”
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), told WoW he is skeptical of the Guttmacher Institute’s research methods and conclusions. Mosher said in countries with socialized medicine, it is easy to track abortion rates because government hospitals keep the records. In countries like the U.S. the estimate is less precise, and in third world countries where abortion is illegal, “They have no statistics at all. … Those number are just wild, wild guesses,” Mosher said.
In Columbia, for instance, GI has estimated the number of abortions in the hundreds of thousands. When PRI asked Columbia’s Vice Minister for Health, the minister gave a different estimate: 50 abortions since abortion became legal last May.
Mosher said pro-abortion organizations have a political and financial interest in inflating abortion statistics: “The higher the number then obviously the more of a health care crisis we have … and the more we need to legalize abortion.”
Mosher does agree with GI that China’s abortion rate has fallen, causing a drop in abortion statistics worldwide. But Mosher attributes China’s drop to sterilization campaigns, not legalized abortion – a fact he said the GI has no political interest in reporting.
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“Population Research Institute” is an intentionally unrevealing name if I’ve ever seen one — from their homepage they seem to be entirely focused on promoting pro-life positions. Of course, that doesn’t make their points wrong, it just bugs me when organizations come up with inaccurate names so that when they’re mentioned their bias isn’t immediately seen.
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So, Stephen, does it bother you when Planned Parenthood calls itself the Guttmacher Institute?
For that matter, what more inaccurate name could there possibly be than Planned Parenthood?
This is just one more attempt on the part of Planned Parenthood to blow smoke up the world’s patootie.
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Stephen – If they were pro-death, wouldn’t it be the Depopulation Research Institute?
I am not sure how abortion could ever be said to save lives. Abortion has a more than 100% fatality rate (the baby or babies and, on occasion, the mother).
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Stubob, there’s not really anything disingenuous about naming a pro-choice research group after a President of Planned Parenthood. As for “Planned Parenthood” itself, since it originated as an organization advocating the freedom to use birth control to “plan parenthood” and has branched out to other methods from there the name seems appropriate.
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Actually, it began as a way to cleanse the world of “inferior races,” in the words of beloved founder Margaret Sanger. It isn’t about planning parenthood; it’s about preventing parenthood, especially among the “inferiors.”
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Ah, but planning sometimes necessitates preventing.
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. . .particularly for the inferior races, who can’t restrain themselves from the exercise of their animal lusts.
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Pro-abortion laws don’t mean more abortions, and pro-life laws don’t mean fewer abortions – just more unsafe abortions.
Of course that’s true. The solution is finding some way to make abortions legal, safe, and rare. Forcing people to have babies they don’t want doesn’t work.
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What qwerty said.
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“The legal status of abortion has never dissuaded women and couples, who, for whatever reason, seek to end pregnancy.”
I think this statement is disingenuous. Many people would never have considered aborting a child if it weren’t legal. I doubt 1.2 million couples were seeking to terminate pregnancies every year prior to Roe v. Wade.
I’ve also talked with too many young women who think something is moral sound, just because it is legal.
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Moral or not, it’s not anyone else’s business. It’s certainly is not the government business.
You are probably right Michelle. It makes sense there would be less abortions if it was illegal. But you know who would be affected the most by illegal abortions? It would be the poor. The people who can’t afford a doctor who would be glad to break the law if the price was right. I just don’t like the idea of a young desperate woman, who has no money, being forced by the government to have a baby she doesn’t want. Abortion is always very sad, but it’s a private matter. It’s fair to say it’s immoral, but it’s also immoral when people don’t mind their own business.
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When the headline is a lie you know the effort behind the lie is tainted. The problem is not that poor people cant get abortions it is that they are raped by the culture and taught that it is impossible to save sex for marriage. “Get your head out of the clouds” you say? Back at you. You reap what you sow.
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I guarantee you that more women die each day from abortion than women’s lives are saved.
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