The Aborted States of America – by County

6-30-04 | Freeper allthingsnew

[cpforlife.org]

The counties in red on this map has a total population of 44,000,000 (Forty-Four Million) – the number of reported surgical abortions since the Roe v Wade decision of 1973.

Freeper allthingsnew e-maied it to me and asked if I could post it. Here it is for your consideration.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Thank you CP, for speaking out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

[c-five]

Here's part of what I wrote to a lib friend two days ago regarding a comment about abortion and suicide being 'private' matters.

There is such a thing as justifiable homicide. Self defense receives due process and public scrutiny. Taking a life of a human creature, whether in the 3rd or 333rd trimester may be justified in relatively rare instances, but similarly deserves due process and public review of some kind. This country has had 44 million prenatal human deaths by their own mother’s choice since the Roe decision in 1973. What kind of society is that? Something has gotten out of hand. That’s a substantial fraction of today’s generation that hasn’t had any opportunity to choose. That’s more than Hitler’s Holocaust, Stalin’s forced starvation in the Ukraine and Pol Pot’s killing fields all put together. The judicial branch of the United States government opened the door to this! This is not private, this is big. Who do we want to be in the world?

[Lady Eileen]

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[allthingsnew]

Thanks for posting this. All interested persons are invited to reproduce and distribute as they see fit.

A note, kindly intended, to those who regarded it as "hyperbolic": I did indeed chose the least populous counties, and I did indeed chose them to make the maximum visual impact, for this particular image, a map. If I were going to focus on the most populous counties, I wouldn't use a map, I'd use pictures of those cities. In fact, 44 million is 97% of every man woman and child residing in the top three standard metropolitan statistical areas in the US, to wit, (1) New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA CMSA (20.2 million); (2) Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA CMSA (16 million); and (3) Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA (8.9 million). http://www.demographia.com/db-99met-r.htm

Put another way, looking at city limits, 44 million is millions more than is every man, woman, and child in every U.S. city larger than Tulsa, OK. http://www.demographia.com/db-99cityr.htm I invite you to do the math yourself; I got tired of adding when I got to Tulsa, and was still short.

I should think that a talented person could present these facts in an image, or series of images, far more arresting than this map.

There are countless ways of representing 44 million. This is one.

[sam_paine]

this map is a bit hyperbolic.

Read my post and respond to what I write, not what you want to be sarcastic about.

[MPJackal]

1. I read your post.
2. I was not being sarcastic. You said, in essence, that the map was exaggerated for effect. I merely pointed out some facts that show there is NO way to exaggerate the effects abortion has had on this country. Explain how that is not responding to what YOU wrote. Why do you come to a discussion site if you are so thin skinned?

[sam_paine]

Why do you come to a discussion site if you are so thin skinned?

ROFLMAO!

Why do you come to a discussion site with such thin arguments, Mr. Nov 5, 2003??

Go play in the ad-hominem sandbox, newbie!!

Back to the substance: Abortion is a tragedy. This map is a propaganda fallacy.

[MPJackal]

"Why do you come to a discussion site with such thin arguments, Mr. Nov 5, 2003??"

"Go play in the ad-hominem sandbox, newbie!!"

You don't know what you are talking about. I first joined in 1999. I was deployed from 2001 to 2003. So I rejoined in 2003. After 2 years I did not remember my Id or password. But what the hell does that have to do with what I said?

And as far as your "ad-hominem sandbox" I did not attack you, I addressed your comment with facts. However your newbie comment is obviously meant as an attack on me. Hypocrite.

[sam_paine]

You forgot a quote!

"Abortion is a tragedy. This map is a propaganda fallacy."

C'mon! I want my smart-alecky response immediately! Hurry!

[MPJackal]

Ignore on

[cgk]

Talk about putting things into perspective. This is the kind of fact sheet that needs to be EVERYWHERE - newspapers, magazines, TV ads?, etc. "44 million" hits hard - but it's just a number to most people. SHOWING PEOPLE EXACTLY WHAT 44 MILLION LOOKS LIKE should make them think, for ONCE.

Pro-life/pro-baby ping.

[cgk]

Thank you for your service to our country.

[Incorrigible]

Given the recent study that states that there would be more Democrats had these children not been aborted over the past 30+ years, it would be an interesting juxtaposition to see a map of the rate of abortion per county overlaid with the county vote for Bush/Gore from the 2000 election.

[VeritatisSplendor]

Look, I am opposed to abortion but this is plain demagoguery. You take the counties with the least population and add them up until you get 44 million. (At least they didn't throw in Alaska) The physical area shown does not represent the number of babies aborted as a proportion of the people alive through the last thirty years. Let's leave the manipulative garbage to the pro-aborts and claim the truth as our road.

Mrs VS

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[victim soul]

It is true that the majority of abortion clinics and abortions are found in our major cities.

But the death toll to our material future on earth and our spiritual deaths in the world to come due to our moral degeneracy can never be called hyperbole.


18 Million Will Not Vote

Paul Weyrich
Monday, July 5, 2004
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/7/2/112343.shtml
The Democrats will meet in Boston this month to nominate Senator Kerry as their candidate for the presidency and to rally the party faithful behind him.

The Democrats in attendance at the Boston convention might ask themselves about the possible voters who might have cast their ballots in this fall's election if only they had not been victims of a key Democratic Party plank: legalized abortion. Consider a fact noted in an article by Larry Eastland in his article "The Empty Cradle Will Rock," published last month in The American Spectator. The number of children whose lives perished at the hands of abortionists from the years 1972, just before the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down, and 1986 is 18,336,576. Think of it! Over 18 million people would have been eligible to vote this year but cannot because their lives were ended by abortion.

Eastland contends that if most of these unborn children had adopted the viewpoint of their parents the odds would be that the Democrats would do well in this year's election. Eastland writes: "As liberals and Democrats fervently seek new voters and supporters through events, fund-raisers, direct mail and every other form of communication available, they achieve results miniscule in comparison to the loss of voters they suffer from their own abortion policies."

No one can say what these children - had they been born - would think now. Thankfully there are children who are rejecting the views of their baby-boomer, pro-legalized abortion parents and identifying with the pro-life cause. How many is unknown, but even the establishment press has written about it.

Whether you accept Eastland's theory, we are a country that has lost too many unborn children to abortion. We are not the same country we would be had those nearly 20 million children been born. Many of those children would have made positive contributions, many might not have, but the sad thing is that each and every unborn child never had the opportunity to make those choices because abortions cut short their lives.

Not only are we not the same country we would have been if not for Roe v. Wade, the Democrats are not the same party.

During the 1970s and even well into the 1980s, conservatives worked often with liberal Democrats on pro-life issues. We still do, but the advocates of legalized abortion now exercise tight-fisted control over the Democrat Party. There are fewer pro-life Democrats in the House and Senate; still some have the courage and fortitude to resist going along with the pro-legalized abortion wing. Many of these pro-life Democrats are liberals or moderates on economic and national security issues, but they earnestly hope their party can regain its true bearings by returning to its belief in the dignity of the individual - born or unborn.

Consider this recent example. Registered Florida Democrat Joy Hearn is seeking a county elected position for the non-partisan office of County Appraiser in Palm Beach County. Hearn, a supporter of adoption, has a "Choose Life" license plate for her car. For that, Hearn was prevented from speaking at a Democrat meeting and officials of the party of tolerance and diversity continued to place pressure on Hearn to remove the license plate.

Hearn is much too kind in her assertions that the officials placing pressure on her were acting in her best interest. However, she was dead right when she told LifeNews.com that despite the pressure she had to remain "honest and true to my beliefs especially when my tag has no bearing on this office, as it is an administrative office making no policy."

Those of us who are pro-life truly understand that a human life is at stake. Many of us, particularly activists, frequently do not want to provide respect or recognition of those who promote an agenda that sanctions the legalized killing of innocent human life. In our view, it would be equally unthinkable to give someone recognition who is urging us to adopt a law that would permit the killing of a newborn baby. We see it as a clear case of right or wrong, not relativism. That belief in certainties and moral absolutes - life starts at conception and all innocent life is sacred - leads pro-lifers into sometimes embracing tactics similar to those that we decry the Palm Beach Democrat Party officials for exercising.

We do not proclaim ourselves to be "pro-choice." As the Hearn case demonstrates, many leading Democrats enshrine "choice" only to denounce it when someone in their ranks makes a different choice on the abortion issue. If they just called themselves "pro-legalized abortion" their actions would not appear to be so hypocritical - demanding that aspiring leaders support only one kind of "choice" on the abortion issue.

This deep-seated opposition to the protection of innocent life was evidenced when the late Robert P. Casey, a committed liberal and then-Governor of Pennsylvania, was prevented from addressing the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Earlier that year Governor Casey reminded his party's platform committee that traditionally their party had been the voice for "the powerless and voiceless" and therefore that should include "[t]he most powerless and voiceless members of the human family: the unborn child." Only after Bob Casey's death did the party's national convention pay tribute to him.

This recalcitrance on the part of the Democrat establishment to recognize the pro-life viewpoint was more recently evidenced by the failure of the Democratic National Committee to provide a link to the website of the Democrats for Life of America (DLFA) while providing one for the Catholics for Free Choice. Eventually, the party relented, deciding simply not to have any links to abortion-related sites. This was a "small victory" for the hearty souls at DFLA who comprise the pro-life wing of the party.

Attention will be paid by the news media this year to the Americans who fail to turn out to vote this year. Indeed, Al Gore might have won in 2000 fair and square had he convinced more liberal-leaning blacks and Hispanics and working-class whites to come out to vote. Karl Rove and the Bush-Cheney 2004 Committee are quite mindful that four million Christian voters failed to vote in the last election, thus costing President Bush a more solid victory.

Not even those politicians skilled at turning out the graveyard vote think of the unborn voters in the first thirteen years since Roe v. Wade who would have been able to cast ballots this year. Based on what Eastland has written, perhaps the pro-legalized abortion Democrats in Boston might reflect upon what their party's support for legalized abortion has done to their party's voter base.

There will be a pro-life Democrat rally on Tuesday, July 27th at Fanieul Hall to make clear that pro-life Democrats "will no longer be silent." Let's hope the noise they make causes more than a few of the party's less enlightened followers to rethink their position on abortion.

Paul M. Weyrich is Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation.