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Press Release
Abortion Rate/Ratio
Way Down On 35th Anniversary Of Roe
Trend To Continue Due to Education, Outreach To Women,
Abortion Pain, Legislation, Generational Shift.
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2008
The following statement can
be attributed to Nevada LIFE President Don Nelson and Toni
Berry:
The yearly number of abortions
has fallen 25 percent
in the last 17 years from 1.6 million to 1.2 million
abortions per year. There has also been a dramatic
decline in the ratio of pregnant women choosing abortion.
The ratio has fallen from 1 abortion in 3 pregnancies
to 1 in 5.
This is good news and evidence
of a pro-life shift in America.
Further evidence to this shift
is consistent polling that says a majority of Americans
oppose 95 percent of all abortions-those not including
rape and incest (less than 1 percent) and the life of the
mother. Although 1.2 million abortions is still alarming,
the number of women deciding to keep their children is
a dramatic change. These trends are due to several
factors and will continue as America embraces life and
rejects abortion.
1. Pro-life education and
technologies like ultra-sound.
Ultrasound makes it clear that
the unborn is a baby, not a “blob of tissue.”
Popular arguments for abortion
have failed. The unborn is not the woman’s body and no one
has a right to choose to kill an innocent human being,
whether in privacy or not.
2. The pro-life community's
passion to "love them both."
Volunteers in over 3000 pro-life crisis pregnancy centers
across America have helped women choose life by loving
both mother and child.
3. Abortion has hurt and
negatively impacted women and men.
That is a leading reason Americans are not willing to
recommend abortion. In 2002 respondents to a Zogby
poll said that “if a relative or close friend
told you she was pregnant and wanted to get an abortion”
they would either “tell her abortion is wrong” (32.7
percent) or advise against her decision (34.7 percent).
The impact of abortion on
women and men led over
10,000 women and men to march last Saturday in San
Francisco- and other places, under the banners
"abortion hurts women," "women deserve better than
abortion," and "I regret my abortion." Abortion has
harmed men and woman and they are speaking out about it.
4. Pro-life legislation.
Pro-life laws like
parental notification, waiting periods, informed consent
and others are supported by vast majorities of Americans
and are a significant factor in reducing the number of
abortions, especially among teens. The educational impact
of the Partial Birth Abortion Prohibition Act and
the Unborn Victims of Violence Act has likewise
been an important factor. Abortion advocates oppose all of
the measures that reduce abortion.
Abortion will continue to go down because the young are
passionately pro-life.
Over two thirds of high school seniors say that
abortion is morally wrong and would not recommend an
abortion. In 2003 Boston College junior Kelly Kroll told
the New York Times “‘myself and my classmates have never
known a world in which abortion wasn't legalized… We've
realized that any one of us could have been aborted.''' "Surprise
mom, I'm against abortion."NY Times, March 30,
2003.
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