Hi VP,
You tell us,
"My opinion is probably not going to be popular. But I personally feel that abortion is evil, regardless of the reason." I agree with you completely! Except for the health of the mother, to save her life -- I can see no other valid reason to have an abortion. Our Pro-Abortion Friends always bring up the question,
"Well, what about those women and girls who are victims of rape and incest? Should they be forced to have the baby conceived through this crime?" On Monday, May 10, 2010, Lets Go Jeepin' and I had a dialogue on this:
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Originally posted by Lets Go Jeepin':
I think you will find the majority of folks that are against abortion feel as I do. There are medical reasons that are justifiable, there are personal reasons that are justifiable. Then there are the 'other' reasons. Its those reasons that drive the majority of people to speak out against abortion. It would be interesting to see statistics on the percentage of abortions that are done outside of the 'medical necessity' or 'moral necessity' reasons. I would be willing to bet that the number that are neither would be staggering.... Hi Jeepin,
From reports I have given before in Forum articles, and other articles, I have written: Basically, there are four reasons for abortion: Rape, Incest, Mother's Health, and Not Convenient.
Rape and incest represent
less than 1% of all abortions in America.
Mother's health represents
less than 2% of all abortions in America.
The other 97+ percent of abortions in America -- 1.26+ MILLION -- fall into the
"Not Convenient" category. I wonder, if those babies could vote -- in they would consider themselves
"not convenient"?
Today, I Googled
"Reasons For Abortions" -- and, this is what I found today:
Reasons Given For Having Abortions In The United States by Wm. Robert Johnston, last updated 9 October 2008
http://www.johnstonsarchive.ne...rtion/abreasons.html In the final summation at the bottom of the web page:
REASONS FOR ABORTIONS: COMPILED ESTIMATES Rape: .3% --
3/10th of one percent attributed to rape.
Incest: .03% --
3/100th of one percent due to incest.
Mother's Health:
1.2% Personal Choice: 98% --
98% for Convenience.
Assuming an average of 1.3 MILLION abortions per year -- about
1.274 MILLION babies died via abortion because they were NOT CONVENIENT!
Now, could those 1.274 MILLION babies have been adopted? I don't know; but, if we as a nation put our money into providing adoptions -- as enthusiastically as we do in funding abortions to kill babies -- a big percentage of them could be put into happy homes and lead productive lives.
When you consider that, since 1973 over 50 MILLION babies have died through abortion -- that is a bigger number than the population of many states. That is infanticide! And, if any of those babies could have been saved through adoption -- and were not; then we have failed them.
There has to be a better solution -- better than killing over 1.3 MILLION babies a year for convenience, in America alone.
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Then, VP, you tell us,
"We as a society have numbed ourselves to the point where killing a baby in a mothers womb is a matter of choice. The mother's 'right.' What about the baby's right? I am sick of the political correctedness/feminism 'My body, my choice' plight." You are so right, VP! It seems that our
"politically correct" society is so hung up on
"the woman's right" -- that they forget that this child has rights also. And, one of those major rights is the
Right To Life.
When Dory and I first saw the lady in this video, Gianna Jessen, she was a frail teenager in a wheel chair -- yet, she sang of her love of Christ with strong conviction. This frail teenager, almost crippled from the results of surviving a Saline Abortion -- was singing a love song to her Savior, the One who brought her through the torturous pain of the attempted Saline Abortion -- and gave her life. I promise you -- at that time, sitting in her wheel chair, and now as she walks to the podium -- Gianna Jessen would never have chosen to be aborted. She loves life and she loves Jesus Christ.
Finally, VP, you tell us,
"I KNOW there are times in which a mother's life may be in danger, and there are RARE instances when a pregnancy must be terminated. But, how can one call an abortion a 'safe medical procedure' when the end result is death of a baby!" As we have seen from the report I quoted above, abortions because of Mother's Health equals
1.2% of the 1.3 million abortions. That is about 13,000 abortions out of a total of 1,300,000 abortions in America every year. As much as I hate abortion -- if we allow those 13,000 abortions to protect the life of the mother -- and to save the lives of 1,287,000 babies; that would be a tremendous improvement over the Mass Infanticide we have today in America.
And, keep in mind that while we are killing 1.3 MILLION babies a year in America via abortion -- in that same time period, about 50 MILLION babies are dying via abortion in the rest of the supposedly civilized world. This most certainly warrants many sincere prayers.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill