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Poll shows people disagree with abortion after baby has heartbeat

A May 2004 Zogby survey of over 1000 Americans found:

61% agree abortion should not be permitted after a fetal heartbeat has begun (16 days)
65% agree abortion should not be permitted after fetal brain waves are detected (6 weeks)
74% disagree with US tax dollars being used to pay for abortions
77% favor laws requiring specific information about fetal pain being given to women 20 weeks pregnant or more prior to an abortion

“More Americans Hold Pro-Life Views” Family Policy News May 2004

The problem is, every abortion stops a beating heart, and the majority kill a baby with brain waves. But people are not educated about fetal development, so they don’t know this.

6 weeks- has a beating heart and brain waves

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Abortion numbers have been dropping, even in states without restrictions

According to the Guttmacher Institute, the number of abortions in America is dropping as more women choose life.

“Between 2010 and the most recent data available from 2013 and 2014, abortions have dropped another twelve percent nationally. Interestingly, some of the biggest declines occurred in states with few restrictions, such as Hawaii with a 30 percent decrease, New Mexico with a 24 percent decrease, and Nevada with a 22 percent decrease … Texas’ decline exactly matched the national average of 12 percent…This is consistent with the longer-term trends in Texas with a 42.3 percent reduction in the abortion rate since 1980 in comparison with Oregon and New Mexico, both states with few abortion restrictions, experiencing a 50.2 percent and 51.9 percent abortion rate decline respectively during the same period…

These trends are consistent with the fact that a smaller percentage of women facing unintended pregnancies have obtained an abortion. This number fell from 54 percent nationally in 1994 to 40 percent in 2008.”

Supreme Court of the United States brief WHOLE WOMAN’S HEALTH, ET AL., PETITIONERS v.JOHN HELLERSTEDT, M.D., COMMISSIONER OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES, ETAL., RESPONDENTS ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

BRIEF OF CITIZENLINK, CHARLOTTE LOZIER INSTITUTE AND STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA, AMICI CURIAE SUPPORTING RESPONDENTS

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Reasons Irish women have abortions

The Irish Pregnancy Counseling Center in Belfast refers women to England for abortions. (Abortion was then illegal in Northern Ireland under most circumstances.) These are the reasons Irish women have abortions, broken down by percentages.The statistics were based on interviews with 500 women.

The quality of life for self and family was threatened: 22%

There was parental disapproval: 18%

Woman is too young to care for a child: 18%

Woman is too old to care for a child: 3%

The circumstances were strongly unfavorable: 13%

There was no relationship with putative father: 11%

Others: 7%

8% of the women had had at least one abortion before.

Cited in Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 54

Most of these reasons Irish women have abortions are due to social factors- abortions out of convenience. the woman just does not want the baby. Only a small fraction of abortions were done for reasons of rape, incest, or a health problem in the mother or child.

This preborn baby is 9 – 10 weeks old. This is within the time that most abortions are currently done.

Statistically few abortions take place before the seventh week. Are the reasons Irish women have abortions good ones, considering that most abortions dismember a growing preborn child?

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Majority of pro-lifers not anti-feminist, even years ago

Even back in 1981, pro-lifers were not anti-feminist, as the pro-abortion side claimed. According to a 1981 survey of National Right to Life Committee members:

90% felt that women “should not leave running the country up to men”

83% approved of women working regardless of marital status and husband’s income

They did show conservative views on sexuality, however:

87% disapproved of premarital sex

75% opposed giving birth control information to teens without parental consent

The survey was conducted by Daniel Granberg and was cited in:

Faye D Ginsburg Contested Lives: the Abortion Debate in an American Community (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1989, 1998)

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Women Are More Pro-Life Than Men

In a CBS news poll, December 17 – 20th, 2010, the following questions were asked. The answers were broken down between men and women. Men and women were asked if they agreed with the following statements. This is the percentage of people who agreed to each one.

Abortion should be generally available

37% men

35% women

It should be available, with limits

40% men

40% women

It should not be permitted

18% men

21% women

Cited in the book Noel Meriano, ed. Abortion (New York: Greenhaven Press, 2010)

We can see that the numbers are very similar, with more men than women supporting abortion on demand and more women wanting it to be illegal in all cases. This shows that abortion is not overwhelmingly supported by women; they are divided on the issue, and so are men

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Abortion killed the equivalent of 540 school bus loads each week

Kent Kelly wrote the following back in 1981:

“NOW- The National Organization for Women is the largest feminist group in America supporting abortion on demand. Each year, the number of women killed in their mother’s womb is over five times the number of women in this organization.”

He also gives the following statistics:

“The equivalent to 10 large hospitals full of children is killed every day.

The equivalent of 540 school bus loads of children is killed each week.

The equivalent of all the Jews in Israel is killed each 18 months.”

Kent Kelly Abortion: The American Holocaust (Southern Pines, North Carolina: Calvary Press, 1981) 8, 9

9-10 weeks, around the time when most abortions are done

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40% of Catholic priests disagree with Vatican on abortion

Writer Ruth Dixon-Mueller comments on study of abortion and Catholic priests:

“A survey of Catholic priests in New York State found that nearly 4 of every 10 said that they disagreed with or had doubts about the Church’s teaching on abortion. Such doubts and disagreement were more common among younger priests. Even among those who agreed fully with the Church’s position, however, a substantial number believed that laws permitting at least some abortions are legitimate.”

Ruth Dixon-Mueller, PhD; Paul KB Dagg, M.D. Abortion & Common Sense (Xilbris Corporation, 2002)

Study cited: Survey results reported by Frank J Traina in Studies in Family Planning (Frank J Traina “Catholic clergy on abortion: preliminary findings of the New York State survey” Family Planning Perspectives 6 (3), 151 – 156

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One in five women who go to Planned Parenthood are seeking abortion

“Planned Parenthood estimates that one in five of the women it sees is seeking an abortion.

The agency performs slightly fewer than 10,000 abortions each year in Arizona,”

Ginger Rough “Planned Parenthood to end abortions at 7 Arizona sites” AzCentral.com Aug. 19, 2011

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Legalizing abortion led to rise in women seeking them, says clinic owner

Future abortion clinic owner who used to work for a referral network that put women in touch with illegal abortionists says that things changed when abortion was legalized:

“As abortion became legalized, the demand for abortion information escalated dramatically. I was surprised at this… Legalization resulted in more women seeking abortion.…

Women with unwanted pregnancies who might have been afraid of illegal abortions became less frightened when abortions were legal.

Now that names of doctors who performed abortions could be given out openly, more women asked for them.”

Norma Goldberger Abortion Confidential: Secrets of an Abortion Clinic Owner (CreateSpace , November 23, 2014) Kindle Edition

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Number of Reported Annual Abotions (1973-2011)

Year Guttmacher CDC

1973 744,610 615,831

1974 898,570 763,476

1975 1,034,170 854,853

1976 1,179,300 988,267

1977 1,316,700 1,079,430

1978 1,409,600 1,157,776

1979 1,497,670 1,251,921

1980 1,553,890 1,297,606

1981 1,577,340 1,300,760

1982 1,573,920 1,303,980

1983 1,575,000 1,268,987

1984 1,577,180 1,333,521

1985 1,588,550 1,328,570

1986 1,574,000 1,328,112

1987 1,559,110 1,353,671

1988 1,590,750 1,371,285

1989 1,566,900 1,396,658

1990 1,608,600 1,429,247

1991 1,556,510 1,388,937

1992 1,528,930 1,359,146

1993 1,495,000 1,330,414

1994 1,423,000 1,267,415

1995 1,359,400 1,210,883

1996 1,360,160 1,225,937

1997 1,335,000 1,186,039

1998 1,319,000 884,273*

1999 1,314,800 861,789*

2000 1,312,990 857,475*

2001 1,291,000 853,485*

2002 1,269,000 854,122*

2003 1,250,000 848,163*

2004 1,222,100 839,226*

2005 1,206,200 820,151*

2006 1,242,200 846,181*

2007 1,209,640 827,609*

2008 1,212,350 825,564*

2009 1,151,600 789,116*

2010 1,102,670 765,651*

2011 1,058,490 730,322*

*excludes NH, CA and at least one other state

Total: 57, 496, 011 Guttmacher Inst.(includes projected numbers for 2012-2014)

GI estimates a possible 3% under reporting rate, which is factored into the overall total

“ABORTION statistics: United States Data and Trends” National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund

Below: 7 weeks. Most abortions happen at this time.

9-10 weeks. 40% happen at this stage or later.

12 weeks. 10% of abortions happen later than 12 weeks

See what babies look like after abortion.

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