Monday, October 29, 2012


More Lives are Lost to Abortion than to the Leading Cause of Death

If we wanted to the greatest good, and were to measure it by number of lives saved, what one thing would we do?

End abortion.

More lives are lost to abortion than to the leading cause of death, maybe by twice, in fact. In 2009, only 599, 413 deaths were attributed to heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States. 

Compare that to abortion. It is said 1.2 million lives are lost each year to abortions. Abortion takes a life about every 30 seconds. 



Define the Unborn as Living, and See What Happens

Define the unborn as a living human by law, and see what happens. They call such efforts "personhood" bills and no state has yet adopted one. Am I amazed? Yes! There is enough opposition to abortion, nationwide, that some state will surely step forth and pass such a bill. Perhaps a referendum somewhere will win in this very election.

Why would it be so significant? As the Supreme Court weighed on what to do in Roe v. Wade, Justice Potter Stewart turned to the Roe's lawyer and asked, "If it were established that an unborn fetus is a person within the protection of the 14th Amendment, you would have almost an impossible case here, would you not?" 

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wondered out loud that a state might declare by statute that a fetus is a person.

The court handed down Roe v. Wade Jan. 22, 1973, so 2013 will mark the 40th anniversary. It would be wonderful to mark the year with a personhood bill.



1 in 5 of Us Do Not Make It Out Alive

What if 41 percent of us didn't make it out alive? In New York City, it can be argued, 41 percent of everyone doesn't make it out alive.

Out of their mother's womb, that is, not out of New York City. (Although some are going to suggest I would be quite right to say out of NYC.) Forty-one percent of all pregnancies in NYC end in abortion, if statistics are accurate. That's means that out of all their babies, they trash almost half.

Nationwide, I believe, the mortality rate is about 20 percent. So, 20 percent nationwide "don't make it out alive."



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