Abortion isn't about Choice. It's about Money

CFP ^ | January 14, 2005 | Nathan Tabor

[MikeEdwards]

As we prepare to celebrate next week’s gala Inauguration Day festivities in Washington, DC, Conservatives need to remember some grim realities. For the past four years we have had both a Republican president and GOP majorities in Congress, yet we have not significantly reduced the number of deaths by abortion in this country.

In fact, in the 32 years since 1973, when Roe v Wade became the law of the land, more than 45.5 million unborn children in America have been sacrificed to the gods of selfishness, hedonism and personal convenience. That comes out to well over 4,000 infanticides per day, for three-plus decades.

Put in historical perspective, the abortion industry in America has slaughtered seven times as many helpless children as Adolf Hitler did Jews during his infamous Final Solution. What is the difference between Hitler and abortion? The world banned together and stopped Hitler.

These sobering facts cause me to contemplate just why this is happening in a nation founded on morals and values. One simple answer comes to mind. It is done for "the love of money which happens to be the root of all evil."

With that in mind let’s examine the profits of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s most prominent provider of so-called "abortion rights," as revealed in its 2003-04 Annual Report.

- Planned Parenthood clinics performed 244,628 surgical abortions, an increase of 6.1 percent. A total 3.5 million surgical abortions have been performed at PP clinics to since 1970.

- Planned Parenthood clinics grossed $302.6 million last year, with $104 million coming from surgical abortions.

- Total PP income for the year was $810 million, with one-third of that, or $265.2 million, coming from public funds given by our elected officials.

- The PP organization has earned net profits for. . . . .

[Calvarys_Soldier]

I do not know if you will accept second hand statistics and expert advice, but I will try to get the official information. My statistics came from a family member who is a practicing Clinical Social Worker with Bachelor and Master's Degrees in Social Work from Syracuse University who specializes in family counseling and trauma counseling. If you wish, I can get ahold of her and the official numbers for you.

[Calvarys_Soldier]

I agree that the Pro-Life lobby has done a very poor job, both in their tactics to overturn Roe v. Wade and in counteracting the abortion lobby's tactics. Case and point, how many times have you heard someone say, "I could never get an abortion myself/I would never want my wife to have an abortion, but I'm pro-choice."

I think President Bush has the right idea. We will be far more successful if we make our immediate goal to have abortion seen as a last resort rather than a first resort. Unfortunately, the abortion lobby has made the practice seem on the same level as using birth control. (Personally, I have no problem with birth control...at least birth control defined as something that prevents pregnancy before it happens.) We must first move toward fewer abortions before we can reach none.

[Calvarys_Soldier]

Honestly, I can't justify killing it, product of rape or not.

However, if the situation were to come up where the choice was keep abortions on demand legal OR allow abortions in the case of rape victims and life in danger, I would rather see the latter...because it would mean far fewer abortions. That is my reasoning. I would rather accept a partial victory than nothing at all.

In all honesty, the reason I make that statement is generally to combat the two most prominent arguments lefties give for abortion. "What if the mother was raped? What if the mother's life is in danger?" So, as a step toward the eventual goal of no abortions at all, I would accept those exceptions TEMPORARILY. I probably should have explained better initially.

[TBP]

Planned Parenthood makes big money doing abortions, as New Dimensions magazine proved about 14-15 years ago.