With so many forms of birth control available, it still amazes me that the number of little lives taken before they can breathe in the air and enter this life as a human are taken through abortion each year is so high!
So, not to make "the Donald" look right or wrong, I don't care about the hypothetical arguments is as to legal or not legal and punishments for those getting abortions if made illegal ... do you as a believer, believe that those who get abortions for the sake of not have that child, as well as those who advocate for and perform abortions, will, in fact, have blood on their hands when they stand before God?
ANNUAL ABORTION STATISTICS
So, not to make "the Donald" look right or wrong, I don't care about the hypothetical arguments is as to legal or not legal and punishments for those getting abortions if made illegal ... do you as a believer, believe that those who get abortions for the sake of not have that child, as well as those who advocate for and perform abortions, will, in fact, have blood on their hands when they stand before God?
ANNUAL ABORTION STATISTICS
- Based on available state-level data, an estimated 977,000 abortions took place in 2014—down from approximately 983,000 abortions in 2013 and 1.02 million abortions in 2012.
- In 2011, 1.06 million abortions took place in the U.S., down from 1.21 million abortions in 2008, 1.2 million in 2005, 1.29 million in 2002, 1.31 million in 2000 and 1.36 million in 1996. From 1973 through 2011, nearly 53 million legal abortions occurred in the U.S. (AGI).
- Twenty-one percent of all U.S. pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion. (AGI).
- In 2011, the highest number of reported abortions occurred in California (181,730), New York (138,370) and Florida (84,990); the fewest occurred in Wyoming (120), South Dakota(600) and North Dakota (1,250) (AGI).
- Mississippi had the lowest abortion rate in 2011 (Wyoming had too few abortions for reliable tabulation), and New York had the highest (AGI). There were approximately 17.5 births for every abortion in Mississippi and approximately 2.3 births for every abortion in New York.
- The annual number of legal induced abortions in the United States doubled between 1973 and 1979, and peaked in 1990. There was a slow but steady decline through the 1990's. Overall, the number of annual abortions decreased by 6% between 2000 and 2009, with temporary spikes in 2002 and 2006 (CDC).
- From 2011 to 2012, the total number and ratio of reported abortions decreased by 4% (CDC).
- In 2011, 17% of legal induced abortions occurred in California (AGI).
- The US abortion rate is similar to those of Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden but higher than those of other Western European countries (NAF).
- In 2005, the abortion rate in the United States was higher than recent rates reported forCanada and Western European countries and lower than rates reported for China, Cuba, the majority of Eastern European countries, and certain Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union (CDC).