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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Bigfoot: [QB] First off some statistics: In 1973 when abortion first became legal the total female population of the United States was 108,402,337 [URL=http://www.census.gov/popest/archives/]Population Source[/URL] The very first year that abortions became legal there were 741,000 abortions. This is roughly 3/4ths of 1% of the total female population at that time. [URL=http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html]Abortion Stat source[/URL] (I am using the higher AGI stats) In 1990 the abortion records reached their highest level of 1,608,600 abortions in that calendar year. At that time the total US female population was 127,838,000. This gives us our highest ratio of approximately 1.4% of the female population of the United States having an abortion. Since that time statistics show that the abortion rate has steadily been decreasing over the last 15 years. In 2000 (the last year in which I could get an educated estimate of both population and abortion rate from the sources above) the abortion rate dropped down to approximately 1,312,990 while the total female population of the United States grew to 143,713,000. This drops the abortion ratio down to just above 9/10ths of 1% of the female population. While I do not have numbers strong enough to relate, the general consensus is that the abortion rate is continuing a measured drop while the female population continues to grow. All the above is to give some context to this conversation regarding abortion. It is a difficult issue to broach. The term 'dead babies' goes against pretty much ever moral and natural instinct we have as a human species so I very much understand the vehement desire to quash any program or law that would seem to support such an end result. However, taking the human emotional and instinctual element out of the conversation, you have to confront some very harsh realities. In 1973, the very first year that abortion was legalized, there were over 700,000 abortions. This was at a time when the family nuclei was generally much stronger and the racial and cultural diversity of our nation much more limited. This suggests that abortion rates can not be directly tied to cultural or racial factors though they may certainly contribute in some cases. Further, these 700 thousand women did not just all of a sudden decide it was OK because it was now legal. These numbers point to the conclusion that hundreds of thousands of women were having back alley abortions every year prior to this law. Putting themselves in hazardous situations medically/environmentally/ and emotionally to have this "illegal" procedure done. Where there is a back alley beyond the law malpractice, abuse, and compromising situations abound because there are NO LEGAL SAFEGUARDS and those who are preyed upon have already broken the law to be there and hence have NO LEGAL RECOURSE to combat the wrongs done to them. The truth of the matter is Abortion is not the problem. Rather it is another symptom of other overarching problems such as abuse, broken homes, poverty, strict cultural or religious expectations of youth, lack of sexual education, etc., coupled along with the foolishness of youth. So yes, I am a pro-choice liberal. Not because I desire the right for children to be killed, but because I recognize that abortion is an indicator of other ills within our society. Passing a law to ban abortion will only drive it back into the shadows to breed a whole new system of corruption and degradation that will prey upon our children and their friends and allow us to turn a blind eye to the causal factors by not having to face their effects in the open. Discuss with me and I will happily discuss with you. To he who calls me a [b]Baby Killer [/b] I will call him a [b]blind hypocritical buffoon[/b] . [b]Blind[/b] because he can not see the larger forces involved. [b]Hypocritical[/b] because he marches to the drum of protecting children while actively undermining the current protections given to our young women. And [b]Buffoon[/b] because he is so quick to judgment and action and loud vociferous attacks he does not even realize that he is blind and hypocritical. The Bigfoot [/QB][/QUOTE]
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