Friday, January 28, 2005
HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR ?
The Second Look Project of the USCCB provides abortion statistics:
Women who have had abortions cite the following reasons:
21% can't afford a baby
21% are unready for responsibility
16% concerned about how having a baby could change their lives
12% have problems with relationship or want to avoid single parenthood
11% are not mature enough/are too young to have children
8% have all the children they want/have all grown-up children
3% possible fetal health problem
3% maternal health problem
1% pregnancy resulted from rape or incest
1% husband/partner wants them to have abortion
1% don't want others to know they had sex or are pregnant
Sources for these statistics are given in the footnotes at the website.
Only 7% of the reasons for abortion--health of the child, health of the mother, rape and incest--fall into the categories that leaps to the minds of most people when they defend keeping abortion legal. In the interests of the 7% of hard cases, 93% of healthy and potentially problem-free pregnancies are aborted. In other words, abortion is primarily used as birth control--murdering a baby in the name of convenience.
