Mott, you sound like you have a scientific handle on what is at the academic argument, but something here that you said is I think just a little disingenuous to insert with what you have to say so far...We hear all the time of those in support of abortion on demand that it is to "save the life of the mother", or "instances of rape, or incest", yet of the abortions preformed last year, how many of those actually were for those instances? Do you know?
According to the CDC:
"WHY ARE ABORTIONS PERFORMED?
On average, women give at least 3 reasons for choosing abortion:
3/4 say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities; about 3/4 say they cannot afford a child; and 1/2 say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner (AGI).
Only 12% of women included a physical problem with their health among reasons for having an abortion (NAF).
One per cent (of aborting women) reported that they were the survivors of rape (NAF)."
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6015a1.htm?s_cid=ss6015a1_w
So, 13% of abortions performed in 2008 were because of the usual defenses of abortion on demand from those constantly screaming the 'my body' meme....Of the 1.36 million abortions in America in 2008 that works out to, 176,800 abortions necessarily performed leaving approximately 1.2 million abortions performed due to convenience factors, or as birth control. This to me is unacceptable. And should be to minorities as well since black women are the most likely to obtain abortion services...Which was Margaret Sanger's plan in the first place...
"[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a
deadweight of human waste ... [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to
the race."
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent
Multiplication of this bad stock."
-- Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review .
And this gem....
"[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden
of unwanted children ... [Women must have the right] to live ... to love
... to be lazy ... to be an unmarried mother ... to create ... to destroy
... The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order
... The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members
is to kill it."
-- Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel , Volume I, Number 1.
Reprinted in Woman and the New Race . New York: Brentanos Publishers,
1922.
What a wonderful woman that must have been eh? Disgusting.