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Pro-Choice War on Women

In response to Mary Honrud’s Part II of “Are They Willing” in the Nov. 4 Courier.

Numbers!! I love them!! Especially when one can really get behind what they are really saying.

Let’s get to a big one. 1,060,000. That’s one million sixty thousand. That’s approximately how many abortions occurred in the U.S. in 2011, the last year we have records for from the Guttmacher Institute. (Guttmacher was started as a semi-autonomous division of Planned Parenthood, so I don’t believe I’m cherry picking sites that are on my side of the issue, rather the opposite). I chose not to use CDC numbers, as California and New Hampshire do not report their numbers and haven’t since 1998, so it [is] essentially a misrepresentation of reality. The number from 2011 is actually 1,058,490 for inquiring minds. That is 2,900 abortions every day on average, 120 per hour, two per minute, so an average of every 30 seconds a mother makes the choice not to be one. I’m not sure what the Child Help site is calling abuse (from your article), but four to seven abuses a day is a fraction of that. 1/725 to be exact. One case of abuse is too many, but I would say that one abortion is a travesty of justice! You infer these aborted children would only add to these numbers. Do you really think that? What a horrific thought! Are we no better than animals? Even they care for their young.

I agree with you on one point, pregnancy is very risky. My wife and I suffered through three miscarriages and a premature daughter dying shortly after birth. Very traumatic to say the least. I don’t believe that either of us would have traded that insecurity, or the trepidation we felt with the last three of our four children after her death, for the solid footing of an abortion. No “there, we finished it!” thought could come close to resolving an issue of a lost child, whether in utero or ex utero.

One last point, China has less maternal deaths than we do precisely because their abortion rate is higher. The last year we have numbers from China is 2007, and their rate was 31.1 percent, almost a third. Our rate is still a disappointing 22.6 percent. If you terminate more pregnancies all complication go away. Wrong! The suicide rate for women is four times higher the first year after an abortion than a pregnancy. Women after one abortion face a 2.3 times higher risk of having cervical cancer. Two or more abortions increase that to 4.92 times. Two to 3 percent of all abortion patients suffer perforation of their uterus. Abortion increases the risk of placenta previa (a life-threatening condition for both the mother and her wanted pregnancy) by seven to 15 fold. And the list goes on. If you look at what abortion does to women and their health, you see there is a war on women being waged by pro- choice advocates.

Respectively,

Chris Pippin

Saco

 

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