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To: TigersEye

Great Post.

Any idea how many abortions are due to rape or incest which is the big issue that the liar rats like to use.


90 posted on 10/11/2005 9:58:17 AM PDT by Joe_October (Saddam supported Terrorists. Al Qaeda are Terrorists. I can't find the link.)
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To: Joe_October
I found this:

For example, it is commonly assumed that rape victims who become pregnant would naturally want abortions. But in the only major study of pregnant rape victims ever done, Dr. Sandra Mahkorn found that 75 to 85 percent chose against abortion.1 This evidence alone should cause people to pause and reflect on the presumption that abortion is wanted or even best for sexual assault victims.

It is difficult to find stats on how many abortions are performed on pregnancies resulting from rape. Not very many. Here is some info. This comes from near the top of the article and there is quite a bit of good info there.

And how many pregnancies result? (from rape)

About 1 or 2 for each 1000. Using the 170,000 figure, (a highly inflated figure, read article above) this translates into an overall total of 170 to 340 assault rape pregnancies a year in the entire United States.

The bottom line is that abortions performed in cases of rape is statistically insignificant. It would be some small fraction of one percent in the chart I posted. Beyond that bottom line is the fact that a large majority of those women who do become pregnant from a rape choose not to abort their baby even though it is now legal to do so, rape or no rape.

91 posted on 10/11/2005 10:52:49 AM PDT by TigersEye (Some think they know it all. Some know they think it all.)
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