Posted on 10/13/2008 3:47:06 PM PDT by wagglebee
Excellent point,WB.
Also, the 50 million estimate is on the low side. Some states like California, do NOT report abortion statistics, and california is a huge state.
The only way we have statistics is that the Alan Guttmacher Institute compiles them—and they are a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood.
So there is a built in bias toward underreporting from the get-go.
“There’s some chance that we’d be in WORSE economic shape if all those unwanted children had been born into lives of welfare dependency.
Furthermore, since the natural abortion rate outstrips the artificial one by a factor of ten or so...we’d be better off focusing on fertility treatments for those who want children, and on reducing pollutants in our environment such as estrogen-mimicing chemicals that reduce male sperm counts or others that increase harmful mutation rates.”
I am glad you are not my mother.
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