Posted on 01/07/2009 10:27:53 PM PST by Balt
In a post last year about why the media hate Sarah Palin, your PP wrote the following:
The single highlighted line in the above article is the tip of a very dirty iceburg: The vast majority of abortions performed in the United States are performed on married women who were trying to have children. The myths of the pregnant cheerleader who wants to finish school or the pre-teen who is raped by a drunken stepfather are largely that: myths. In the rest of the world, the demographic is bit different: the majority of abortions outside the United States are performed because the child in question is a girl. More about this phenomenon later.
For the benefit of those who might be doubting that assertion, here's a story from CatholicCulture.org, dated today:
In a bid to raise public awareness on the deep bias against female children in India, the country's federal government has decided to observe January 24 as "national girl child day". The federal cabinet approved the proposal as an effort to fight against the "scourges" of sex-selection abortion and malnutrition faced by baby girls.
India has one of the most skewed sex ratios in the world, with fewer than 925 women for every 1,000 men, due to the bias against baby girls. According to the Hindu tradition, a father cannot attain moksha unless he has a son to perform his last rites. This religious tenet gave rise to a system of requiring a substantial dowry for the marriage of a female child, thus making a girl an economic liability for parents of limited means. As a result, many couples choose abortion when they learn that an unborn child is female. According to federal government statistics, more than 10 million girls have been "missing" in India over the past two decades because of sex-selection abortion.
And that's just India. If that shocks you -- and I hope it does -- you don't even want to think about China, where the reasons for aborting conceived girls is based on concerns far more disturbing than a misguided devotion to the tenents of a pagan religion. As your PP has said before (many times, now), abortion in the United States derives from a very different social psudo-ethic than it does in the rest of the world, the irony being that feminists who trumpet abortion as an issue of "reproductive rights" are throwing their support behind a global conspiracy to eliminate their own sex (or, to misuse the modern term, gender) from the face of the earth; not to mention the fact that the most basic of "reproductive rights" has to be the right to reproduce -- or, more to the point, the right to be reproduced.
That's not to say the dynamic which feeds the slaughter here in the Land of the Free is all sweetness and light. The number one reason for abortion in the US? Downs Syndrome, with nearly 90% of those conceived with the condition never seeing the light of day, and over 80% of all abortions being done for this reason alone. And to those who say it's cruel to bring such children into the world, I'd love to introduce you to some of the delightful children I've had the honor to serve as pastor who have this condition, and to the parents who wouldn't trade them for clones of Albert Einstein.
As one of my seminary profs once said: The harshest component of God's judgement on any one of us will be regarding how we treated those who were wanted the least.
URGENT: Novena request for the defeat of FOCA to start Jan.11
As a school nurse, I try to tell parents who argue for abortion rights that less than 1% of all US abortions occur because of rape or incest. Most are because of convenience or shame. Before anyone gets a chance to talk a young girl or even an adult into a logical choice about the matter, their friends and the PP clinics have already convinced them that there is only one solution.
So it’s a genocide not on the basis of race, but of genetics.
What horrific news. God have mercy on America and the world for this unspeakable crime against humanity.
That statistic about rape and incest is a point my late friend Morton Downey, Jr. attempted to give national traction on that raucous TV show of his.
YOU PRO-ABORTS WILL FIND IT GRATIFYING.
THESE little ones had grandparents somewhere who WILL NEVER KNOW THEM. The sadness of that should overwhelm us all.
This shot was taken by a pro-life activist behind an abortuary. But those aren’t human babies. The One has told us so.
Down’s Syndrome kids account for 80% of U.S. abortions?
For real?
Also a conspiracy against minorities. Planned Parenthood was founded to exterminate them.
Where is there the slightest shred of evidence that the majority of abortions are because of Down’s Syndrome in the US? I’m calling BS on this one.
Maybe they mean that 80% of Down’s babies area aborted.
wagglebee - arm got bad today and can only use left, and am not a southpaw! So I won’t be doing much pinging til it’s better, not that I help a lot...
Just want to note that it is not traditional Hindu teachings to abort girl babies, as abortion is traditionally considered murder and a grave sin. Also, I’ve read recently that some areas in China have 150 boys to 100 girls. They’re creating a hell on earth.
BTTT
Abortions for any fetal defect are a small minority of abortions in this country, less than 5%. So many people feel revulsion against people with DS, or other deformity, retardation or handicap, that to say that 80% of abortions are for this reason will only increase popular support for abortion.
I have heard this revulsion from my own family when I was grieving a baby miscarried because of DS, and they knew I was grieving. (80% of DS babies, that is, with trisomy 21, will die of natural causes before birth.)
Check out the figures from the Guttmacher Institute - even the pro-abortionists admit that "possible fetal health problems" only account for 3% of abortions.
We on the pro-life side MUST have our facts straight.
The link to the Guttmacher figures, meant to include it post above.
IN Pearl Buck’s “The Good Earth” there are descriptions of baskets of little girls left on the road to die.
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