Posted on 10/21/2005 9:44:50 AM PDT by Lindykim
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Very much doubt this number. I think they misplaced a decimal or something.
Thought this might interest yall...
The US performs very roughly 1M abortions each year, not 10M.
Anthony Comstock made Margaret Sanger famous.
Margaret Sanger ,that nasty witch, thought other people were weeds.
The 486,000,000 abortion counts an estimate of the number of abortions caused by IUDs, which does not prevent conception but prevents the baby from being implanted in the uterine wall, and birth control pills and patches, most of which work in part by making the uterine lining hostile to a newly concieved baby. The numbers were obtained by estimating the average chance of conception based upon circumstances, age, fertility, etc in relation to number of years using an IUD, then combining those with the number of conceptions likely to have taken place with breakthrough ovulation (again controlled for age, fertility, frequency of sex, etc) on the pill or the patch.
Pharmacists for Life's website has detailed information about this research, if you are interested.
....teaches that we are evolving towards a utopian paradise on earth which will be created through the godlike ingenuity of some highly evolved “chosen ones.” The humanist plan of redemption and salvation is contained within various ‘gospels’ written by highly evolved humans who are revered as ‘enlightened’ (with revealed truth) voices of reason.”
Mormons?
This is an excellent article, but IMO it takes into account only part of the forces arrayed against the Judeo/Christian God and His followers.
I suggest a more accurate paradigm is that this is battle of the forces of hatred/evil/rebellion/darkness against the forces of Good (the Judeo/Christian God and his followers). And the enemy has two prongs of attack. One army, as mentioned in this article, consists of rebels against God (the atheists, hedonists...the man-centered crowd). And the other force--just as deadly if not more so--is comprised of the followers of Islam's Allah. Allah (Satan) has indeed already fired his shot and makes no secret of his plan to unleash death and destruction on the world.
It is not just that war is now underway (it has been going on since the dawn of time). The greater truth is that this war is finally nearing its climax.
OK. However, please be aware that the vast majority of Americans do not consider at least some of these events to constitute an abortion.
Wild statements of this type, IMHO, do significant damage to the pro-life cause.
It was the late 1970s and I was taking a US History course at Memphis State University. My long-haired bearded instructor sat cross-legged on top of his desk and told us what our required reading was to be. One of the books was "Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger."
R: Wild statements of this type, IMHO, do significant damage to the pro-life cause
Wild? By whose definition (the pro-death crowd?) and based upon what moral criterian?
My impression is that the number of aborted babies per year approximates 1,000,000. That being the case, the number cited is off by an order of magnitude. It may very well be 48,600,000, as you suspect.
Just my opinion, of course.
By definition, when you classify anyone who has ever used birth control pills or an IUD as an abortionist, it means that you are designating a significant majority of Americans as perpetrators.
Some significant number of these people, who might otherwise be open to the pro-life cause, are going to be driven into opposition by such statements.
I fail to see how classifying most American voters as "the enemy" can possibly help advance a political cause.
Nahh. Turns out they calculated the total number of pregnancies they think would have occurred had IUDs and birth control pills not been used for this period.
Utterly ridiculous, of course, as this rate of pregnancies had not existed in America for decades prior to their invention. If IUDs and the Pill had not existed during this period, people would have just used condoms and other methods to prevent the vast majority of these pregnancies.
This column fails to note that Margaret Sanger's main focus was birth control for the lesser races as a way to reduce their numbers. No wonder the KKK loved her.
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