Jivin J’s Life Links 11-30-09
by JivinJ
Results: For 2006, a total of 846,181 abortions were reported to CDC. Among the 46 areas that provided data consistently during 1996–2006, a total of 835,134 abortions (98.7% of the total) were reported; the abortion rate was 16.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, and the abortion ratio was 236 abortions per 1,000 live births….
During the previous decade (1997–2006), reported abortion numbers, rates, and ratios decreased 5.7%, 8.8%, and 14.8%, respectively; most of these declines occurred before 2001. During the previous year (2005–2006), the total number of abortions increased 3.1%, and the abortion rate increased 3.2%; the abortion ratio was stable.
He added, “Now, I don’t understand the idea of it should be rare and, and less. Well, either you believe it’s life or you don’t.
Why would you believe it should be rare? Because if it’s not — if a baby, a fetus is not a life, then why restrict it?”
Duluth Police arrested the suspect, 25-year-old Mechelle Talluah Hall, inside the abortuary and found a knife in her purse matching Leah’s description. She has been charged with second-degree assault. Hall told the judge considering the conditions of her release, “I know what I did was wrong.”
But the number of people who are going to lose access that they currently have, and therefore be forced to carry a pregnancy to term, is not likely to be all that large. We’re mostly talking about a modest number of women who will have to hand over several hundred dollars that they would really rather spend elsewhere. ….
So I don’t get the outsized reaction to all this–I mean, outside the professional interest groups, who of course are contractually obligated to get outraged about everything. Fears that women will lose their current access to abortion often seem to be muddled together with frustration at not being able to expand access to abortion.
Bruce claims in a civil lawsuit that Hodari and an assistant held her down and covered her mouth as she screamed for them to stop while Hodari aborted her fetus.
A written statement reportedly provided by another worker in Hodari’s office and contained in the lawsuit, claims that the doctor told an upset Bruce “I’m not going to do this. I’m going to send you home” before going through with the abortion.
The employee wrote that Hodari grinned as he completed the procedure, according to court documents.
For some reason, the Journal article claims Hodari is a “nationally respected doctor.” Then they even use a quote from the infamous YouTube video where Hodari says he has a “license to lie” to his patients without mentioning the “license to lie” statement or that the video was secretly shot by pro-lifers.
[Image attribution, Rick Warren: vexedinthecity.wordpress.com]
Why aren’t ALL states required to report abortions to the CDC? What are they hiding?
You’re quoting Megan McArdle? You do realize she is incorrect about everything? And it is Megan without an h.
I conceived my son in early Feb 2006 and delivered him late October 2006. So to read of all those abortions in 2006 breaks my heart because they would be my son’s age. Any mom who is considering an abortion…DON’T! you don’t understand what you’ll be missing! My son and I decorated cookies together today. I love all these precious memories.
That 835,134 abortions is surgical abortions. Am I wrong?
It does not include RU-486 and Plan B, for example, which account for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of innocent babies destroyed by chemical weapons.
(Some call them “exceptions.” God calls them precious children and murder victims. Every exception is a precious baby.
Those numbers also don’t include the innocent, defenseless babies who are destroyed by embryonic stem cell research and in the production of vaccines, etc. The real numbers are frighteningly high. The real number of unborn infanticides in America is over 1.5 million per year, even using statistics from the pro-abortion group The Guttmacher Institute. And as the mini-article above states, the numbers are rising, not declining.
This is the success of 42 years of compromised incrementalism.
California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana and Minnesota do not current report divorce statistics to the National Center for Health Statistics. What are they hiding!!1111!!!
Dahlin, you do know how to whistle, don’t you?
You just put your pouty little lips together and blow….
Which came first the ovum or the human?
yor bro ken
Dhalgren,
When the POTUS says he want to make divorce safe, legal and rare, I’ll complain about poorly-kept divorce statistics, until then I don’t care.
Divorce should be safe, legal and rare. What’s your point?