Planned UN-Parenthood

January 28, 2008 on 11:19 am | In Abortion, Planned Parenthood  Email This Post

Frankly, calling abortion (the termination of a life within a woman’s uterus) “reproductive health,” is a ridiculous - but effective - way of obfuscating the realities.  A January 18 report from the Associated Press (which excludes California because its government does not provide data) estimates that in 2005 there were 1.2 million abortions - down from a peak of 1.6 million abortions in 1990, but still happening in 20% of the cases where conception has occurred.

Half of the 1.2 million U.S. women who have abortions each year are 25 and older, while only 17% are teenagers.  Since abortion became legal, there have been roughly 50 million abortions in the US, and more than one-third of adult women are estimated to have had at least one. Continue reading Planned UN-Parenthood…

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