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          Abortion In Perspective
           
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          • The number of legal abortions:1

            • 1973:  745,000
            1988:  1,600,000
          • More than 25 million abortions have been performed in the U.S. since 1973, 2  the year the Supreme Court legalized abortion in all 50 states.  This is more than twenty times the combined number of Americans who died in the Civil War, both World Wars and the Vietnam War.
          • The Unted States has one of the highest abortion rates among developed nations.  The abortion rate in the U.S., for example, is five times that of the Netherlands. 3
          • The United States has one of themost permissive abortion policies of any nation in the world; only nations such as Communist China compare to the U.S. in giving legal sanction to abortion any time during a pregnancy and for virtually any reason. 4

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          FOOTNOTES
          1.  Rachel Benson Gold, Abortion and Women's Health (New York and Washington, D.C.: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1990), pp. 20-22.
          2.  Guttmacher Institute, Facts, and personal communication with Guttmacher Institute's information director, December 5, 1990.
          3.  Guttmacher, Facts.
          4.  Harvard University law professor Mary Ann Glendon, Abortion and Divorce in Western Law (Cambridge: Havard University Press, 1987), p. 24.

          This article was printed and distributed by the Knights of Columbus and was posted on this web site March 1999.
           

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          It is noteworthy and honorable that some folks are willing to stand up for a ban on Partial-Birth Abortion.  Let us not forget that ordinary everyday run of the mill abortion is also murder.  We must understand that murder is murder no matter the method.  Because one method of abortion seems to be horrible does not make the other methods less so.  We should be horrified and sickened by any abortion regardless of the method.  The Fifth Commandment spells it out clearly:

          "Thou shalt not kill."

          A fetus is a person, a human being with a God given soul.  Imagine the pain the Lord must feel when any abortion occurs.  Please contact both of your Senators and Representative, via letter or phone,  to let them know how horrified you are that abortions are legal and to stop Partial-Birth abortions and all other abortions as soon as possible.

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