Sure - let’s dive into one of the most DIVISIVE topics of all time. Why not?
But let’s keep to the data.
For 2019, a total of 629,898 abortions were reported to CDC. By comparison, there were 1.4 million abortions in 1990 (see chart at the bottom). The rate of abortions every year has dropped but the data here is muddy and the definitions have changed decade after decade.
The United States is one of very few countries allowing termination of a pregnancy at most any stage (in some states):
Rasmussen Reports conducts polling on this subject. From their 2019 survey they found:
53% of likely voters consider themselves pro-choice
40% identify as pro-life
7% unsure
Those numbers reflect a divided electorate. 50% of these same voters feel that abortion is “morally wrong most of the time.”
62% of Republicans are pro-life with 33% identifying as pro-choice.
For Democrats, that numbers is reversed: 70% are pro-choice and 23% are pro-life
62% of Blacks consider themselves pro-choice - higher than the average of 53%. According to a 2019 CDC report, “Black women had the highest abortion rate (23.8 abortions per 1,000 women) and ratio (386 abortions per 1,000 live births).”
😳 Almost 40% of births in the Black community are aborted.
Even so, the electorate is pretty firm that abortions from 2nd and 3rd trimesters are unacceptable. 66% of likely voters responded that New York’s new abortion law (allowing abortions up to birth) goes too far. Even 43% of pro-choice identifiers believe that it is out of bounds.
The CDC reports that the vast majority of abortion occur under 14 weeks but consider that tens of thousands of abortions have occurred well into the third trimester.
The overwhelming number of abortions performed are elective. Even the second trimester.
According to a 2020 Florida annual abortion report, less than 1% of abortions are from defects. 98% of abortions are elective.
As the Supreme Court noted, there are serious moral and ethical issues with abortion considering the science of life in the womb:
I promised I’d keep to the data but here’s something that’s pretty powerful. 97% of all abortion are elective. Less than 1% -> the health of the mother. 40% of all black pregnancies end in abortion. 1 in 5 abortions happen at 12 weeks or later In states like CA and NY a fetus at 20 weeks (seen below) up to birth can be aborted.
We have both a hedonistic culture and a culture of death. It may very well be that we end up with the politicians we deserve rather than the best politicians.
We are a failing nation. Look at our schools. Look how they have dumbed down the books over the last 50 years to fit the flailing student. Take a look at a primer from 1955, most of our high school graduates would not know a lot of the vocabulary. Look how we treat our elderly. When Covid came, we just allowed them to die, and nobody even raised a hand to stop the death knell in the nursing homes. Look how we treat our veterans. How about our homeless people, how about them? So is it any wonder that nobody gives a damn about anybody else’s baby? What DO we care about? The next video game, the next iPhone, coming out, the next series on Netflix, the middle aisles of the grocery store that make you fat and sick as long as you can stuff your gullet with as much junk food as you can. That’s where we are. Fat, lazy, illiterate, apathetic with nary a thought for anyone but ourselves. And don’t let me get started about our lack of spirituality and regard for God…