Abortion Myths

MYTH:		Abortion is only legal through the first trimester.
	FACT:	Due to the radical scope of Roe v. Wade and Doe V. Bolton, abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy.
	FACT:	Over 77,000 abortions take place every year in the United States after the sixteenth week of pregnancy.
MYTH:		Women really need abortion for health reasons.
	FACT:	An Alan Guttmacher Institute survey found that nearly one half of women obtaining abortions said they used no birth control method during the month they got pregnant..
	FACT:	Add to this fact that, at most, only seven percent of all abortions are done for the mother's physical or psychological health. Rape and incest are cited as reasons for less than 1% of all abortions.
	FACT:	Nationally, 82% of women obtaining abortions are unmarried. The statistics strongly suggest abortion is used as birth control.
MYTH:		No one knows when human life begins.
	FACT:	The California Medical Association referred to "the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception and is continuous whether intra-extra-uterine until death."
MYTH:		Abortion is an unfortunate necessity and doesn't happen often.
	FACT:	1.6 million abortions take place each year in the U.S. Nearly one in three pregnancies ends in abortion.
MYTH:		We need abortion to reduce child abuse. Wanted children will not become abused children.
	FACT:	Abortion has done nothing to reduce child abuse. Child abuse increased 500% from 1973 the year abortion was legalized throughout the United States, to 1986.
MYTH:		The typical abortive women is a poor, black teen.
	FACT:	Two-thirds of women getting abortions are between ages 20 and 24. Sixty-eight percent are white. And two-thirds have an annual income of over $11,000.

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die
so you may live as you wish"
Mother Theresa

"A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope"
Pope John Paul II