Rich people are more pro-abortion than poor people, study shows.
In a January 2013 Gallup poll, 58% of those with an annual income of $75,000 or more identified as “pro-choice.” Among those who earned less than $30,000 a year, only 41% identified as “pro-choice”—a whopping 17-point gap.
Thomas W Strahan writes about how the number of families headed by women that are in living in poverty has only increased since abortion was legalized:
“This increased feminization of poverty coincides remarkably closely to the period of increasingly legalized abortion. Arguments have been made that the availability of abortion should help avoid this trend, because job loss due to childbirth would be avoided, as would the burdens of childcare which so clearly contribute to povertization. The fact that the pattern has worsened precisely during the period when there was an upsurge in abortions suggests that, at the very least, abortion has been an inadequate solution to this poverty trend.”
Thomas W Strahan “Abortion in the Feminization of Poverty” in Rachael McNair and Stephen Zunes, eds. Consistently Opposing Killing (Bloomington, Indiana: Author’s Choice Press, 2008, 2011) 48
Termination rates of around 90% after prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome are documented in a systemic review of International studies.
C Mansfield et al “Termination Rates after Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome, Spina Bifida, Anencephaly, and Turner and Klinefelter Syndromes: A Systematic Literature Review” Prenatal Diagnosis, 19 (1999) 808 – 813
Lisa Arnold compiled the following statistics in 2002 and 2003 from over 200 postabortion women. She works in a crisis pregnancy center, and this is taken from the women who came to her who had past abortions.
My decision to abort had a great impact on my life
agree: 88%
disagree: 7%
not sure: 5%
my self-image has changed since my abortion
agree 78%
disagree 11%
not sure 11%
I cry over my abortion and aborted child (1 – 3 times per month)
agree: 44%
disagree: 39%
not sure: 17%
I feel disconnected and separated from others since my abortion.
Agree: 58%
disagree: 36%
not sure: 6%
I have trouble expressing my emotions.
Agree: 62%
disagree: 29%
not sure: 9%
I find myself being easily angered
agree: 72%
disagree: 21%
not sure: 7%
I struggle with depression.
Agree: 69%
disagree: 20%
not sure: 11%
I am startled when unexpectedly approached or hear a loud noise.
Agree: 57%
disagree: 20%
not sure: 11%
I often feel moody or irritable.
Agree: 80%
disagree: 11%
not sure: 9%
I have trouble sleeping.
Agree: 69%
disagree: 22%
not sure: 9%
I struggle with guilt and self-condemnation over my abortion.
Agree: 85%
disagree: 10%
not sure: 5%
I have kept my abortion a closely guarded secret.
Agree: 82%
disagree: 17%
not sure: 1%
I thought my life would stay the same or change for the better after my abortion.
Agree: 67%
disagree: 18%
not sure: 15%
I worry a lot about the future.
Agree: 78%
disagree: 14%
not sure: 8%
I feel separated from God because of what I have done.
Agree: 65%
disagree: 30%
not sure: 5%
I am afraid God will punish me for having my abortion.
Agree: 72%
disagree: 16%
not sure: 12%
It is difficult for me to make decisions and stick to them.
Agree: 56%
disagree: 2%
not sure: 42%
I thought the emotional pain I have felt over my abortion would lessen over the years but it has gotten stronger.
Agree: 78%
disagree: 19%
not sure: 3%
I think about how old my child would be now.
Agree: 86%
disagree: 12%
not sure: 2%
My abortion experience as a whole was the biggest mistake of my life.
Agree: 73%
disagree: 15%
not sure: 12%
My abortion experience was a relief and helped me to get on with my life.
Agree: 12%
disagree: 76%
not sure: 12%
I would never have another abortion.
Agree: 79%
disagree: 3%
not sure: 18%
I would have another abortion if I felt I had to.
Agree: 9%
disagree: 80%
not sure: 11%
I am interested in free postabortion counseling.
Agree: 75%
disagree: 11%
not sure: 14%
“The women surveyed are of ages ranging from 14 to 58 and come from widespread socioeconomic environments, are of various ethnic backgrounds and have diverse religious beliefs. The period of time from their abortion experience to complete the survey varied from one month to 37 years. The information was gathered in an effort to research the overall effect abortion has on a diverse number of women. It will be used to benefit those involved in counseling and recovery from postabortion stress.”
Jennifer O’Neill Healing through God’s Grace after Abortion (Deerfield Beach, Florida: Faith Communications, 2005) 63-65
A woman named Margaret tells the story of her abortions. and how her daughter was born:
“The first time I was 26 and involved with a married colleague, and after three months I found out that I was pregnant.
At first I thought I was having a child with the man I loved, but when he came back with the news he was going to get back with his wife, that’s when it changed from being a baby to a problem.
I didn’t think I could cope. There were emotional influences, being ashamed, telling my parents that I was pregnant, and having to leave work.
I was feeling fear and panic. I was reacting to a crisis and I had never had a crisis like that in my life.
My life was out of control and I wanted to get back to normal.
I went to the British Pregnancy Advice Service for counselling. I asked if at ten weeks it was a baby and they said, ‘No, it’s just cells.”
But nine years later there was an almost repeat – I met a guy at work and I didn’t know he was married.
The second time we went out we had intercourse and I took the risk of unprotected sex as I thought as an older woman I couldn’t possibly become pregnant.
But I did. Two weeks later I realised and had that same feeling of panic, I couldn’t believe I was back in this crisis.
I had an abortion, but ten weeks later my period hadn’t come back, I went back to the doctor who said I was still pregnant.
They sent me for a scan and that is when my denial ended. When I saw that baby with its heart beating, I knew that nine years ago I had destroyed a baby.
Before my daughter was born four months later I was worried how I would love it, but when she was born the feelings were just amazing.
I realised that I had been reacting out of fear and not really thinking. I was in denial: ‘It wasn’t really a baby but cells.’
Women deserve more than abortion in a crisis. There are other options, why should the death of a baby be the only answer?”
Judith Arcana was an abortionist before Roe v. Wade with the organization JANE and is currently a pro-abortion activist. She talks about how women seem to have different feelings about abortion now than they did when it was first legalized:
“The young American women I have encountered, and those asked in surveys, are now starting to say something they never used to say in the 60s and 70s. Now they say ‘I think abortion should be legal, but I could never have one’….
with abortion, something has changed the other way, gone backwards, so to speak. A US generation has grown up in a context where abortion is a negative word.
Granted, abortion was never a jolly subject, but simply thinking and talking about abortion is once again something people do not want to do, something fraught with guilt and fear and shame.”
Abortion providers talk about the problems they have disposing of the bodies of aborted children. Undercover footage shot at National Abortion Federation conference recorded by David Daleiden. It was released on December 29, 2015:
Abortion Provider Rene Chelian:
“So in coalition, we started working with hospitals who didn’t want to be seen with us. We met them in like Denny’s restaurant, there’s not even many of those left…We talked about you know what are you guys going to do. They were terrified of a public relations nightmare. That hospital actually had big freezers with breasts and kneecaps and gallbladders and abortions or miscarriages. Um and they put all their jars together, at some point. and they go to Stericycle unless the hospital happens to have their incinerator which is rarer and rarer. The guy from Stericycle was quick to point that out to me.”
We were really tempted to give the fetus back. We thought we’ll give it to everybody in a gift bag, they can take it home, figure out what to do with it. It’s their pregnancy. Why is it our problem? And I’m saying that in all seriousness. Nobody wants to talk about dead bodies. Nobody but me. There was a point when Stericycle fired us that I had five months of fetal tissue in my freezers and we were renting freezers to put them in. So all I thought about, I am so consumed with fetal tissue, I was ready to drive to upper Michigan and have a bonfire. And I was just trying to figure out, you know how I wouldn’t get stopped or how far in the woods would I have to go to have this fire that nobody was going to see me. And the garbage disposal was an option, I mean, there was a point that I actually hired someone from another clinic to come in and take 20 bottles and put it into my garbage disposal.
When you look at incinerators for cremation the website descriptions are small cat, small dog, larger dog. So we were looking trying to compare our jars to various animals you might incinerate. We knew we wouldn’t need one big enough for a horse [laughter from abortionists in the crowd].… Were we going to have to go into inner-city Detroit and get a lot and put an incinerator there and then how do we transfer the waste? I mean fortunately, we have those really lax laws in Michigan, so I was going to get a license as a transporter [laughter], yet another fun thing, yup.… Got another fun thing, and there are a bunch of clinics buying an incinerator and then we can just go pick up for each other if we all got a license. I mean talk about moving on the competition.… I mean really, this is my backup plan. It’s going to have a name that is really, you know, nothing to do with anything in the universe and it’ll be really hard to find because it’s going to be in somebody else’s name, not mine.
Aborted child at 10 weeks
So I don’t know, that’s how awful this is. I feel like the Mafia.
We actually found some green technology that is like a dishwasher. And you plug it in like a dishwasher, like a portable dishwasher, and you add some kind of chemical – I mean, I’m using the word chemical really loose – it’s green, that’s all I know. And you’re just using it because they don’t have enough cemetery, they don’t have any space. And you run this cycle and then it goes in the sewer system, which sounds like a really great idea! Although I have to say I can’t remember if that was approved.”
aborted at 20 weeks
Abortion provider Karen:
“Even in our hospital in Canada, we contract out ultimately to Stericycle, and it’s going out to Portland. And Portland is a waste to energy facility. It’s a PR nightmare for us. It would end up being the front page of the paper “Fetuses Are Being Used for Energy.” I mean, I think it’s a great idea…”
13 weeks,
Abortion provider Rene Chelian:
“When we sent to another state, it became the whole issue of, do we tell FedEx what they’re picking up? How long will it take for the antis to figure it out? And if we don’t tell them, what if there’s a bad snowstorm, like there was this winter, and UPS gets delayed or FedEx get delayed, and their truck starts stinking – I mean every state law is different.
11 weeks
I know what I wanted to actually put the fetal tissue in my car and drive to the crematorium in Illinois [but] I was advised by my attorneys that I was breaking several state laws and that, that really wasn’t a good idea. Although, I have a good friend in another state who is currently driving across two states, once a month, with fetal tissue to go to a funeral home and and they have an arrangement to send out for cremation.
20 weeks
But everything is a secret, so it’s really scary. Because we are all one incinerator away or one incineration company away from being closed. Whatever your laws are in your state, if the antis know, this could shut us down.”
Pro-Life author William M Connolly gives a perspective on the risk of death during pregnancy:
“The risk of death hovers around one in 100,000 pregnancies. In contrast, there is an approximate one in 10,000 risk of death if a woman drives her automobile during the next nine months… There is an even higher statistical risk of death or serious injury if a woman goes skiing this winter or scuba diving this summer. There are inherent risks in many things we do in life.”
William M Connolly One Life:How the US Supreme CourtDeliberately Distortedthe History, Science and Lawof Abortion (Xlibris, 2002) 69
“One Australian study [found] 60% of women believe life begins at conception (compared with 36% of men). That doesn’t stop [women] having abortions… It is possible for people to support a woman’s right to choose whether they believe abortion is killing or not.”
Eileen Fairweather “Abortion: The Feelings behind the Slogans” in Women’s Health: A Spare Rib Reader, ed. S. O’Sullivan (London: Pandora, 1987) 199 – 200
