View From the Bushes

My friend Ed corrected me on my Planned Parenthood claim, using the statistic that 4,000 abortions are performed each day. That sounded really, really high. But everywhere I looked on the web, the numbers seemed to support this figure. But I'm still skeptical (though obviously less so). One of the things that really puts my skepticism into overdrive is the figure the CDC provides (that previous link) of 1 abortion for every three live births. Which means every time you see three kids together, somebody, somewhere, aborted one. I'll be honest, I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around that one.

Of course, if I want to continue to argue that those numbers are inflated, I have to be able to offer at least some rationale for where the inflation is coming from. I thought maybe it might be an overly broad definition. According to the website, "Legal induced abortion was defined as a procedure, performed by a licensed physician or someone acting under the supervision of a licensed physician, that was intended to terminate a suspected or known intrauterine pregnancy and to produce a nonviable fetus at any gestational age." Kind of the only wiggle room I see is the term "suspected" and the phrase "any gestational age," but at most, that shaves of a percentage here or there, but it's not going to cut the number in half...

I guess I have no other recourse than to assume that the numbers are pretty accurate. Which would further mean that I was wrong. Now there's something you don't see every day... (Or is it "There's something you see every day"? I can never get that right.) I did think that Ed's comment that the Pro-Choice people were selectively breeding themselves out of existence was trenchant, and, dare I say, humorous...

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Ross