It's worse than I could ever have imagined.
850,000 abortions in the US each year--not counting four states, incl. CA. (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0764203.html)
The reasons?
4% for own health, 3% for baby's health, not even 0.5% for rape.
25% for inconvenience, 23% for money. (http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=
/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13174)
46 million abortions in the world each year--26 million are legal.
(http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_0599.html)
The world death rate (of post-birth people of course) is about 56 million per year. (http://www.indexmundi.com/world/death_rate.html and .../world/population.html)
Thus if a fetus is considered morally equivalent to...
A whole innocent person? Abortions account for 45% of all human deaths.
A half person? Now it's 29% (more than starvation, cancer or heart disease).
10% of a person? 7.6% of all deaths, or 4.6 milion deaths each year (half a Holocaust).
1% of a person? 0.8% of all deaths, or 460,000 deaths each year (more than the number of US soldiers killed in WWII).
0.1%? 46,000 deaths (twice the total of all US citizens killed or injured in the Second Gulf War).
0.01%? 4,600 deaths (more than 9/11).
0.001%? 460 deaths (more than a 747 crash).
However you count your fetuses, that's an awful lot of abortions.
And even if every country in the world somehow had a murder rate as high as Colombia's (highest in the world), homicide would still only be 7% of all deaths. If everywhere were like Slovenia, it would be only 0.08%. The reality is of course in-between, but I couldn't find good data.
(http://www.benbest.com/lifeext/murder.html#world)
And can we really say that a fetus is only 1/100,000 of a moral person? Isn't it more like 1, or 1/2, or 1/10 at least? Wasn't I worth a whole person two days before I came out of the womb--after only 30 weeks of pregnancy?
Now I agree that if you don't think abortion is wrong at all, the rate of abortions is no more meaningful than the rate of milkshake sales. But if you're even not sure it's wrong, or think it's wrong sometimes, isn't this data frightening?
For one who thinks it's terribly Wrong, these statistics make me feel slightly sick.
The reasons?
4% for own health, 3% for baby's health, not even 0.5% for rape.
25% for inconvenience, 23% for money. (http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=
/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13174)
46 million abortions in the world each year--26 million are legal.
(http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_0599.html)
The world death rate (of post-birth people of course) is about 56 million per year. (http://www.indexmundi.com/world/death_rate.html and .../world/population.html)
Thus if a fetus is considered morally equivalent to...
A whole innocent person? Abortions account for 45% of all human deaths.
A half person? Now it's 29% (more than starvation, cancer or heart disease).
10% of a person? 7.6% of all deaths, or 4.6 milion deaths each year (half a Holocaust).
1% of a person? 0.8% of all deaths, or 460,000 deaths each year (more than the number of US soldiers killed in WWII).
0.1%? 46,000 deaths (twice the total of all US citizens killed or injured in the Second Gulf War).
0.01%? 4,600 deaths (more than 9/11).
0.001%? 460 deaths (more than a 747 crash).
However you count your fetuses, that's an awful lot of abortions.
And even if every country in the world somehow had a murder rate as high as Colombia's (highest in the world), homicide would still only be 7% of all deaths. If everywhere were like Slovenia, it would be only 0.08%. The reality is of course in-between, but I couldn't find good data.
(http://www.benbest.com/lifeext/murder.html#world)
And can we really say that a fetus is only 1/100,000 of a moral person? Isn't it more like 1, or 1/2, or 1/10 at least? Wasn't I worth a whole person two days before I came out of the womb--after only 30 weeks of pregnancy?
Now I agree that if you don't think abortion is wrong at all, the rate of abortions is no more meaningful than the rate of milkshake sales. But if you're even not sure it's wrong, or think it's wrong sometimes, isn't this data frightening?
For one who thinks it's terribly Wrong, these statistics make me feel slightly sick.
posted by PNRJ at 18:14
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