Posted on 06/01/2009 9:40:29 AM PDT by pantherskincreek
Abortion-related violence
Following is a list of other recent cases of abortion-related violence:
April 2007: Authorities say Paul Ross Evans placed a homemade bomb in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center in Texas. Oct. 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian is fatally shot in his home in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y. Jan. 29, 1998: A bomb explodes just outside a Birmingham, Ala., abortion clinic, killing a police officer and wounding several others. Jan. 16, 1997: Two bomb blasts an hour apart rock an Atlanta building containing an abortion clinic. Dec. 30, 1994: John Salvi opens fire with a rifle inside two Boston-area abortion clinics. Nov. 8, 1994: Dr. Garson Romalis, who performs abortions in Vancouver, Canada, is shot in the leg while eating breakfast at home. July 29, 1994: Dr. John Bayard Britton and his volunteer escort, James H. Barrett, are slain outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic. Barrett's wife, June, is wounded in the attack. Aug. 19, 1993: Dr. George Tiller is shot in the arms as he drives out of parking lot at his Wichita, Kan. March 10, 1993: Dr. David Gunn is shot to death outside Pensacola, Fla., clinic, becoming the first U.S. doctor killed during an anti-abortion demonstration.
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When weighed against the millions of murdered unborn children, that list looks very small.
“Recent”? Only one is even in this decade.
Meanwhile, we have endless examples of Muslim terrorists. Can we make blanket statements about the "hypocrisy" in the Muslim world? No. Will the media make endless pronouncements about the hypocrisy in the pro-life movement? You betcha.
Murder is wrong.......unless you are an innocent unborn (and now includes ‘newly’ born). But imagine what the abortionist wakes to ‘on the other side of eternity’. “There are no atheiests in hell”
WORLDWIDE
Number of abortions per year: Approximately 42 Million
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 115,000
Where abortions occur:
83% of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 17% occur in developed countries.
UNITED STATES
Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700
Who’s having abortions (age)?
52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25: Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%.
Who’s having abortions (race)?
While white women obtain 60% of all abortions, their abortion rate is well below that of minority women. Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2 times as likely.
Who’s having abortions (marital status)?
64.4% of all abortions are performed on never-married women; Married women account for 18.4% of all abortions and divorced women obtain 9.4%.
Who’s having abortions (religion)?
Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as “Born-again/Evangelical”.
Who’s having abortions (income)?
Women with family incomes less than $15,000 obtain 28.7% of all abortions; Women with family incomes between $15,000 and $29,999 obtain 19.5%; Women with family incomes between $30,000 and $59,999 obtain 38.0%; Women with family incomes over $60,000 obtain 13.8%.
Why women have abortions
1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).
At what gestational ages are abortions performed:
52% of all abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy, 25% happen between the 9th & 10th week, 12% happen between the 11th and 12th week, 6% happen between the 13th & 15th week, 4% happen between the 16th & 20th week, and 1% of all abortions (16,450/yr.) happen after the 20th week of pregnancy.
Likelihood of abortion:
An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion.
Abortion coverage:
48% of all abortion facilities provide services after the 12th week of pregnancy. 9 in 10 managed care plans routinely cover abortion or provide limited coverage. About 14% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds, virtually all of which are state funds. 16 states (CA, CT, HI, ED, IL, MA , MD, MD, MN, MT, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA and WV) pay for abortions for some poor women.
Wonder when they will put the muzzl'em violence list online.
Objectively speaking, these deaths as a result of anti-abortionists (not pro-lifers) is a drop in the bucket! Ironically, it speaks volumes to just how peaceful pro-life protests have been!
Interesting statistics.
Can you say where you got the numbers and how recent they are?
Thanks.
“When weighed against the millions of murdered unborn children, that list looks very small.”
Exactly - whatever that total is compared to 3,300 babies slaughtered EACH DAY (that’s 1,204,500/YEAR for those of you in Rio Linda), I think the Pro-Life movement is losing big time. Let them piss an moan all they want . . . there’s many more Tillers on their way to God’s final justice.
I did the research a couple years ago: For every clinic bombed or burned, 17 to 18 churches are burned down. You already know which one makes the headlines.
Wow! Did you save the research? Its now my new tagline.
And how do we know that these weren’t drug deals gone wrong?
Pro-Abortion Violence
http://abortionviolence.com/0.HTM
Excerpt:
“I was told to antagonize the pro-lifers and I made the girls throw out any pro-life literature before entering the clinic. ... We would tell them, “Those people out there are terrorists, it’s safer in here. They’re crazy.” I even told one group, “That woman out there was just released from Meadowview Mental Hospital. Don’t talk to her; she killed her family.” ... As soon as I got here last August, I joined the “Freedom of Choice Action League.” They’re big at Pine and Market. Some of them practice witchcraft and sometimes they chalk pentagrams [a Satanic symbol] on the sidewalks. ... I had written about how they openly practice witchcraft and how the clinic director tells us, every time we beat up the pro-lifers, to cover their cameras. ... I wrote [in an editorial to the Wichita Eagle] that pro-abortionists displayed sex toys in front of children and how they dumped semen and urine on people at national rescues. I personally defaced churches, LIFE, Inc., and HopeNet. I apologize for that. ... They hate God, they’re anti-Christian ...
“Pro-abortionists are the terrorists, not the pro-lifers. They’re the ones throwing bricks through people’s windows and doing obscene things. I was shocked when I went to the Crypt to pray and they were screaming and yelling, shouting obscenities, while all the pro-lifers were praying silently.”
— Reformed pro-abortion activist Raymond Rivera
Excellent point.
that 43 percent of women who have had an abortion is twisting statistics.
they use the general population of women and divide it by the number of abortions.
but your next number points out the repeaters: some women use abortion for birth control and have numerous abortions...so it inflates the first statistic.
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