[xp38]

That’s a lot. It’s around 40 to 50 million in the US since the SCOTUS decision. How is that figure arrived at? Is it an estimate?

[wagglebee]

http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/25s3099.html

[Sam Clements]

That’s a lot. It’s around 40 to 50 million in the US since the SCOTUS decision. How is that figure arrived at? Is it an estimate?

The figure is based on the annual average of about 1.3 million dead babies X 35 years since Harry Blackmun and his accomplices signed their death warrants. We always talk about mass murderers, people like Ted Bundy, but what about Harry Blackmun?

[Neidermeyer]

That’s a lot. It’s around 40 to 50 million in the US since the SCOTUS decision. How is that figure arrived at? Is it an estimate?
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As bad as it is here if you figure in the Soviet block where women averaged 7-10 abortions in a lifetime (I have no current numbers) and Cuba where 90% of all pregnancies still end in abortion it comes to a huge number... I find 1B in the last 100 years as realistic.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The 40 - 50 million figure is from the Guttmacher Institute, which is the research arm of Planned Parenthood. They base their figure mostly on the statistics collected by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), but since there is no uniform, enforceable reporting requirement in all 50 states, GI's figures are generally regarded as more complete than CDC's.