[dangus]

Which nation isn’t Christian?

Number of abortions per 10,000, Russia, 2008: 87
Number of abortions per 10,000, Russia, 2013: 57
Number of abortions per 10,000, New York, 2009: 300
Number of abortions per 10,000, Texas, 2009: 150
Number of abortions per 10,000, Florida, 2009: 240

[Corporate Democrat]

Where did you get the figures for the American abortion statistics?

I hope you realize that RIA Novoski took the lazy way out, and basically divided the total number of abortions in 2008 (1,250,000) and divided it by the total population of Russia. (150,000,000) and then multiplied it by 10,000 to get their ratio.

American statistics tend to count only women in a certain age group.

[Corporate Democrat]

I'll do the same thing RIA Novoski did, for comparison's sake. The average number of abortions in America in 2008, according to Life News and the Guttmacher Institute was 1,200,000. The American population is 300 million. So 1.2/300*10000=40. 40 versus 87 would be the real comparison.

[Corporate Democrat]

Just another quick note, according to Guttmacher and Russian official statistics in 2013 (which I would actually take with a healthy grain of salt) both countries have seen reduced abortions with both countries at roughly 1.06 million abortions per year.

Of course, Russia also has half the population that America does. Despite professing to be more Christian, they still can’t help aborting at double the rate we do. Neither is Putin very eager to ban abortion entirely it seems, despite the fact that his professed religion calls for it.