Posted on 08/21/2012 1:52:41 PM PDT by Hillary'sMoralVoid
No excerpt. Just Google for statistics on percentage of abortions performed as a result of rape or incest. Despite an obvious motivation for a rape victim to want to abort, the statistics are consistently less than 1% for rape victims. The COMBINED Rape, Incest and Threat to Mother's Life is the tiniest category that is measured in all abortion statistics. It is indeed rare.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I believe it about 1 in five pregnancies end in abortion. So, they’re saying approximately one in every 500 cases of intercourse is rape?
Seems awfully high to me.
*sigh*
I see this is from 1989
but i doubt the true results have changed all that much
and the policies were changed to allow fed funds to be used for abortions in the case of incest and rape
I also would bet the fraud around this is huge and we are paying for pletny of abortions that are not result of rape or incest, just convenience .
Awfully high - yes, exactly what I thought. Very high.
The headline is totally wrong.
Maybe 1% of all abortions are REPORTED as the result of rape or incest.
Planned Parenthood makes huge bank off of NOT reporting statutory rape and incest, because they know they’ll get repeat customers.
Yes, I’m saying they are THAT evil.
Hell, a lot of the sex offenders rape more different girls in a month than healthy married couples have intimate encounters with each other in a year.
Their sexual appetites are unbalanced and they have more sex.
A very old story but the numbers probably haven't changed much since then.
The main point to take from this is that fight over rape and incest exceptions avoids the bigger picture. If you had the chance to prevent 98% or 99% of abortions because a majority believe they are wrong, why hold that up fighting for the remaining 1-2%?
It's better to legislatively prevent the others for which there is no major disagreement and then go back to fight for the rest of them. It's the Left that wants to divide pro-lifers by forcing them to choose sides on this, which they do every time they get the chance.
You are correct. It is evil. I would like to see these rapists jailed, those that convinced the woman to hide the rape and just get abortions jailed and those that facilitate it all jailed.
Rapists continue their evil deeds until they are caught and removed from society. If the jails get full then build more and call it a jobs project.
Doesn’t matter. What Akin said was horrid. When I prosecuted, easily a third of rapes ended in pregnancy.
This is about Akin and his comments. Sadly, he thought more about himself than the Party and didn’t withdraw.
“Rape is such a serious crime that deliberately bringing a false accusation of rape should be an equally serious crime and women are not being punished for those crimes. I believe that being falsely accused of rape is as traumatic as being raped.”-Alan Dershowitz
http://foundinnocent.org/rape/meet-the-false-rape-society/
Alan Dershowitz has said that, according to FBI surveys, eight percent of all rape charges are completely unfounded (Dershowitz) (compared to 1.6% of assault charges). Other studies with different methods have placed the percentage as high as 60% (Zepezauer). Of course, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics; and the advocates for rape victims are highly skeptical as to the probability that a woman would ever bring a false accusation. Regardless of the precise percentage, a general awareness of insincere complaints of rape is prevalent.
Some stats are 5% chance every time no matter what.
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