Joseph Wright, assistant professor at Penn State University and visiting fellow at the University of Notre Dame, produced an article for Catholics in Alliance in November of 2008 addressing the effect of socioeconomic factors in abortion reduction. Abortions fell by 18%-21% from 1990-2000 An increase in economic assistance to low income families is correlated with […Full Article]
According to the November 2006 report by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, greater access to contraceptives does not decrease abortions. Swedish teen abortion rates rose from 1.7% to 2.25% between 1995 and 2001 despite easy access to contraceptives Studies also done in Scotland and the San Francisco Bay area showed that availability of […Full Article]
Linda Lowen of About.com mentioned there are “1.5 million American families wanting to adopt a child.” Therefore, “there is no such thing as an unwanted child.” To read the entire article, click on Ten Arguments For Abortion and Against Abortion. The Child Welfare Information Gateway, a service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human […Full Article]
According to Kessel E. Mumford in the National Center for Biotechnology Information, “No nation desirous of reducing its growth rate to 1% or less can expect to do so without the widespread use of abortion.” “Developed countries will need to maintain abortion rates generally in the range of 201-500 abortions per 1000 live births if […Full Article]
According to Pregnant Pause, the total casualties of all U.S. wars is a little over 1,150,000. The total abortions since 1973 is 31,000,000. The website may be found by clicking on U.S. War Casualties.
The Guttmacher Institute has the following statistics about abortion: “7% of women aged 15-44 are at risk of unwanted pregnancy but are not using contraceptives.” “The proportion of women who are at risk of unwanted pregnancy but not using a method increased from 5% in 1995 to 7% in 2002.” “One-quarter of the more than […Full Article]
The Guttmacher Institute has the following statistics about abortion: “Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion.” The number of abortions in the U.S. had decreased during George W. Bush’s presidency. In fact, abortions have declined in the U.S. since the early 1980’s. “At […Full Article]
John Lott and John Whitley said, “We find evidence that legalizing abortion increased murder rates by around about 0.5 to 7 percent.” Full Citation: Lott, John R. and Whitley, John E.,Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births(April 30, 2001). Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 254. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=270126 or DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.270126 […Full Article]
According to the 2001 report by the United States General Accounting Office, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates received $184 million in 1999 and $196 million in 2000 in federal funds. The entire report may be read by clicking on Reproductive Health: Federal Funds That Supported Four Nonprofit Organizations. According to a […Full Article]
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Law 91-572, “Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs,” was enacted as Title X of the Public Health Service Act, commonly referred to as Title X, or Title X Family Planning program. Title X was enacted in 1970, signed into law by Richard Nixon, […Full Article]