I just hope I don't have to watch the reckoning. Or hear it. Or smell it.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/27/2010 2:09:08 PM PST by wagglebee
Americans saw a political milestone this month as more pro-life lawmakers were elected to the House of Representatives than ever before, but the nation also quietly reached a less joyful mark.
In January, the National Right to Life Committee provided a new analysis of the total number of abortions done in the 37 years since the Roe v. Wade decision.
The Supreme Court handed down its controversial ruling — allowing virtually unlimited abortions at any time throughout pregnancy — in January 1973. The NRLC analysis found that 52 million unborn children had been killed in abortions as of January.
The analysis also found that the best estimate for the current number of annual abortions in the United States — involving both the surgical abortion procedure as well as the dangerous abortion drug RU 486 — is 1.2 million.
As a result, the United States likely passed the 53 million abortion mark on November 1 — the day before Americans went to the polls to vote in a pro-life House majority and target President Barack Obama’s pro-abortion allies for defeat.
Obama has done everything in his power to advance abortion and continue that pro-abortion legacy of the Supreme Court, including naming two more pro-abortion jurists in Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. He has also expanded that 53 million abortions by authorizing abortion funding in various instances and decreasing funds for abstinence education.
In its survey of abortion numbers, NRLC goes to the source by relying on the Guttmacher Institute, the former research arm of Planned Parenthood, which receives numbers directly from abortion centers themselves.
That’s because the Centers for Disease Control has never tabulated accurate numbers of abortions. The CDC relies on figures from state health departments, some of which rely on voluntary reporting — and it hasn’t had data from some states such as California and New Hampshire for more than a decade.
“Because of these different methods of data collection, GI has consistently obtained higher counts than the CDC. CDC researchers have admitted it probably undercounts the total number of abortions because reporting laws vary from state to state and some abortionists probably do not report or under-report the abortions they perform,” NRLC explained in January.
Digging into the numbers, the NRLC analysis from earlier this year showed abortion numbers rising in the 1970s and, in the 1980s, abortion eventually mainstreamed itself to the point that about 1.55 million abortions were done annually until the early 1990s.
At that point, as crisis pregnancy centers began turning the corner with the use of ultrasounds, pro-life state legislation began to take hold and the Internet allowed the pro-life perspective to flourish, abortions began to decline.
“After reaching a high of over 1.6 million in 1990, the number of abortions annually performed in the U.S. has dropped back to levels not seen since the late 1970s,” NRLC says.
The Guttmacher Institutes most recent abortion figures, from 2005, confirm the downward trend from a high of 1.6 million abortions in 1990 to 1.2 million that year. Without any hard figures in the last few years, NRLC estimates the number of abortions from 2006 to today at the same rate of 1.2 million that GI reported.
To calculate the overall number of abortions, NRLC includes the hard figures from 1973-2005, the estimates for the last few years and also includes the Guttmacher Institute’s admission that its own figures are likely about three percent lower than the actual totals because of potential errors in reporting.
National Right to Life estimated that, in January, there have been 52,008,665 abortions using either surgical or the abortion drug (RU 486) method since Roe v. Wade.
NRLC director of research and education Randy O’Bannon talked with LifeNews.com at that time about the figures.
“Abortion has taken a terrible toll on America. We’ve now lost more than 52 million of our sons, daughters, friends, and neighbors and we are a much poorer nation for it,” he said.
“Over the past twenty years, however, we have seen that pro-life efforts can make a difference, as the number of abortions performed in the U.S. has declined from 1.6 million to 1.2 million a year. We’ve still a long way to go, obviously, but we see that pro-life legislation, education, and outreach can save and has saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” O’Bannon added. “Our task is great, but our cause is just.”
53 million people that could have been happy and functioning and being a benefit to America. The oldest could be around 37 today and could have had kids of their own.
What? To believe that, you'd have to believe that every woman who got pregnant was tempted to have an abortion. There were too many whom that never entered their mind.
And by the way, in 1972 who do you think voted for abortion? The boomers? I'm a boomer and I was 14 years old then. A lot of us boomers had no say in that 1972 vote. It was the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation who were the overwhelming voting numbers back then.
Who the heck do you think voted for abortion in whole, that you blame boomers for that?
The problem with your generation is that you've never been trained to *think*.
Again, young people voted for Obama overwhelmingly. You want to blame the boomers for that? Eff that. You start taking responsibility for your own actions. I'm too old to blame "my parents" or anyone else for my actions. If I have a "problem" I have to look in the mirror. There's no one left to blame except me.
“I do not have it within me to ask for God’s forgiveness for this travesty... nor could I ever understand how He could.”
However great our sins, His forgiveness is greater.
I remember a guy I used to work with very upset that his son’s girlfriend was aborting their grandchild. His son could not talk her out of it because her mother wouldn’t hear of it. The kid would be in hers or his teens today.
“All of us have a legitimate beef.”
Try getting a legitimate education.
We did not vote for abortion. It was forced on us by the liberal judiciocracy.
You must have heard the words, “Roe versus Wade,” surely.
It is true that we did not rise up in rebellion against this evil, but then, neither has your generation.
“We did not vote for abortion. It was forced on us by the liberal judiciocracy”.
Did you?
Well let’s look at that whole story. Is it true? Roe started in the Northern TX district court, in an attempt to strike down the law barring abortion.
Let’s see, it was a 3 panel jury in the state of Texas.
You do remember Sarah T. Hughes right? Only woman to ever swear in a president? She was on the panel.
You didn’t vote for LBJ did you? How about JFK? Actions don’t just happen in a vacuum, and justices don’t get appointed without presidents. No LBJ, no Sarah T Hughes, and the panel doesn’t fire off an injuction barring the abortion laws from operating in the state of Texas, and opening the floodgates.
“It is true that we did not rise up in rebellion against this evil, but then, neither has your generation.”
Open your eyes. You are aware they just had the 40 day vigil for Life picketing at all the clinics?
I guess I’m just a foolish old kid who doesn’t know nothing about anything.
that “karma” is going to really hurt America badly!
We are. The absolute peak of the abortion industry was in 1991 just prior to the election of Clinton, where the industry had over 21 thousand clinics across America. Now there are only 700, and falling.
The Boomers, who didn’t vote for Clinton, didn’t vote for any of this, somehow aren’t culpable for the expansion of the industry after Roe to the massive edifice we’re now trying to destroy. They don’t continue to fund Planned Parenthood, they don’t oppose laws which permit government funding of abortion, and they continue to take their grandkids and daughters to the clinics to keep them running today.
If Boomers were sincerely opposed to abortion as a whole, it never would have gotten as far as they did, and they wouldn’t have had as many abortions as they did. They would have said yes to their children, and not no, and instead of attacking people for calling them out, they would say, you know, we messed up.
You think that the greatest generation were the ones having the abortions? No. And right off the bat, the first response is that you should blame your parents for the whole mess instead of accepting responsibility.
Yes, it’s the largest holocaust in American history. 50 million Americans are dead because of the policies of 1972. And now, we are the ones who are going to undo the policies because the Boomers were too concerned about themselves.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that 19 years after Roe is when the industry hit it’s peak? All the Boomers lined right up for their abortions, and when the folks who had to live through all of it, they said no, and have been increasingly saying no since then.
“Who the heck do you think voted for abortion in whole, that you blame boomers for that?”
Gee, I dunno. Clinton perhaps? Oh right, Clinton didn’t preside over the extension and expansion of Roe. Didn’t say that abortion should be ‘safe, legal and rare.’ Didn’t pass FACE, didn’t try prolife organisations as terrorists.
Gee, that wouldn’t be the boomer style at all.
I just hope I don't have to watch the reckoning. Or hear it. Or smell it.
It will come. I remember the first time I realised that not only am I in the middle of this mess, but that the mess is already 10 years in before I was even born. It might not be the dominant issue yet, but for me and my generation, we will not have known a world without. We will deal with it until the day the last clinic closes.
I was reading a book the other day, and I think everyone knows that something big is coming up, the only question is what. God is long suffering, and patient, but when will he exact his punishment?
Mmmmm, you have certainly decided that everything is “The Boomers’ Fault”. Good luck with all that, at the Judgment Seat. Really, I wish you well.
Boomers are responsible for the world they helped make, and the responsibility that has been given to them. As will all of us in our time.
Some have stepped up and done many good things.
My problem, and I’m not the only one who has made this observation is that most prolifers are not Boomers, and they are the ones conspicuously absent at the table. Old folks and young folks form a curious sideshow.
Why is this, FlyVet? Why did so many of your compatriots make the decisions that they chose to do? Why have they not repented and walked away?
Depends on whom the someone else is>
From BooBoo1000 | 11/28/2010 10:56:59 PM PST read
No sorry I have never had the pleasure of meeting her.
“Did you?”
Did you mean to say, “Didn’t you (vote for abortion)?”
“Let’s see, it was a 3 panel jury in the state of Texas.”
I think you meant to say “three-judge panel.”
“You do remember Sarah T. Hughes right? Only woman to ever swear in a president? She was on the panel.”
Yes, one of three.
“You didn’t vote for LBJ did you? How about JFK?”
The United States Census Bureau defines the demographic birth boom as between 1946 and 1964.
To have voted in 1960, one would have had to have been born in or before 1939. LBJ stood for election in 1964, when voters had to have been born in or before 1943.
So, no: the baby-boomers did not vote for JFK or LBJ.
“...justices don’t get appointed without presidents. No LBJ, no Sarah T Hughes...”
Vell, let’s chust have a look at that: “…in 1935 Hughes accepted an appointment by Governor James Allred as judge of the Fourteenth District Court in Dallas...The next year Texas voters elected her to the position and then re-elected her six more times, every four years through 1960...She was appointed to the federal bench by JFK in 1961” (Quoted from Pickyweedia)
I’d like to hear how either the baby-boomers or LBJ are responsible for any of that.
“Open your eyes. You are aware they just had the 40 day vigil for Life picketing at all the clinics?”
Good grief, is your generation so saturated in estrogen that picketing seems equivalent to ‘rising up in rebellion?’
“I guess I’m just a foolish old kid who doesn’t know nothing about anything.”
You are certainly making a strong case for that proposition. With one irrelevant exception, everything you asserted as fact was incorrect.
What was incorrect?
Did I say that boomers voted for LBJ? No. I didn’t say anything of the sort. I asked if you voted for LBJ. Simple yes or no question.
Sarah Hughes would not have been in the position that she was put in without the endorsement of LBJ, and she would not have kicked it up to the supremes without LBJ. Suffice to say, Kennedy himself wouldn’t have been in his position without LBJ either, who helped him carry TX.
The point I was making, is that elected officials have an enormous impact on the judiciary.
So that being said, what are your thoughts on Planned Parenthood vs Casey?
“that picketing seems equivalent to ‘rising up in rebellion?”
It takes guts to go up and do it. Have you ever done it, DSC? Have you ever stood your ground against a mob? I’ve done it. Physical force is countered by soul force.
“He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.”
That was one of the charges of America’s founders against King George.
Someone explain to me how this government hasn’t done the exact same thing to the little children in the womb who are being slaughtered by the thousands EVERY DAY.
“What was incorrect?”
1. “3 panel jury”
2. You clearly implied that the baby boomers were responsible for LBJ and JFK, by way of trying to blame them for all the evils of the world.
3. “No LBJ, no Sarah T Hughes...” Sarah Hughes was appointed by JFK, not LBJ.
4. “No LBJ…and the panel doesn’t fire off an injunction…” Road apples.
5. “Sarah Hughes would not have been in the position that she was put in without the endorsement of LBJ…” In the immortal word of LBJ himself, “Horseshit.”
6. “…she would not have kicked it up to the supremes without LBJ…” Same one-word response as number 5 above.
7. “Kennedy himself wouldn’t have been in his position without LBJ either, who helped him carry TX…” That horse must have dysentery. Kennedy took that election through fraud, and would have done it with or without LBJ. I mean, you don’t really want to say that people who voted for JFK would have voted for Nixon if LBJ had not been on the ticket, do you? Sort of like people who voted for McLame would have voted for the Bamtard if Governor Palin hadn’t been on the ticket.
Riiiiigght.
“Did I say that boomers voted for LBJ? No. I didn’t say anything of the sort.”
Horseshit. You were responding to my statement that the baby-boomers didn’t vote to legalize abortion. Your response, paraphrasing, “Didn’t you vote for abortion? Did you vote for JFK or LBJ?”
“I asked if you voted for LBJ. Simple yes or no question.”
How about switching animals? Let’s call this one bullshit. It was not a question at all, but an attack posing as a question. It’s meaning was, “Since you baby-boomers voted for JFK and LBJ, you voted for abortion.”
“The point I was making, is that elected officials have an enormous impact on the judiciary.”
Bullshit. You were trying to show that the baby-boomers are responsible for legalized abortion.
“So that being said, what are your thoughts on Planned Parenthood vs Casey?”
Incorrectly upheld Roe.
“It takes guts to go up and do it.”
Yeah, a hell of a lot more guts than the military shows staring down the gun barrels of our country’s enemies. Why, I’d rather be shot a hundred times than have some Code Pink witch yell mean things at me.
“Physical force is countered by soul force.”
On what planet?
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