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Health & Healing

Cemeteries for Preborn Babies have an abortion because of incest.
Recent data from the CDC shows
similar results.

Thus, we see that abortion has
become nothing more than a social
eraser for embarrassing situations,
since 85.7 % of all abortions are
performed on unmarried women.

Do not be afraid to tell and show
the truth: The overwhelming major-
these states are the most sparse- performed for reasons that have ity of abortions are performed for
ly-populated in the United States, nothing to do with either the social or economic reasons. Even as
consider this: surgical abortion has mother’s or the baby’s health. An we focus on accurately presenting
killed enough preborn children to article in the journal BMC Women’s data on the reasons women give
occupy more than the top 50 most Health discusses research conducted for abortion, we must be absolutely
populated US cities. with respondents who were asked clear that there are no justifiable
about reasons why they had abor- reasons to kill either a born or
In short, images are excellent tools tions. Forty percent said they were preborn person. When a mother’s
for describing the sheer magnitude not financially prepared. Thirty-six life is at risk during a pregnancy, we
of the abortion disaster, which has percent said they had the abortion must do our best to save both lives.
killed the equivalent of the popu- because the timing was bad, they Nor should a disability, regardless of
lation of eighteen of the western were not ready, or the pregnancy how severe, be a death sentence for
states or more than the 50 most was unplanned. Twenty-nine percent a preborn child.
populated cities in the nation. One said they wanted to focus on other
superb example of the use of children. Twenty percent said they Statistics on Abortion by Race
imagery is a comparison between wanted to focus on career or school. An especially sensitive area for
the numbers of people killed in all Only 12% said they were concerned pro-abortionists is any publicity
American wars and the number of about their health or the baby’s regarding their systematic targeting
people killed by abortion as of 2011. health—and that included reasons of minority babies.
For an eye-opening visual, Life Dy- such as drug addiction, alcohol use,
namics uses small beads to represent tobacco use, or the use of medica- In 2015, the Center for Urban
the relative number of deaths. tions. Renewal and Education reported on
Statistics on Abortion: Why Women the effects of abortion in the black
Abort Further, the reports that just 1% of community:
Other areas in which imagery can be women who have an abortion have
very helpful in reaching people are it because they became pregnant as a Disproportionally, the leading consumer
the frequency of the “hard cases,” result of rape, and fewer than 0.5% of the abortionists’ services is the African
the terrible toll that abortion is hav-
ing on minorities, and the reasons
women give for late-term abortions.

The classic hard cases are abortion
for rape and incest, birth defects,
and to preserve the life and the Abortion
health of the mother. Pro-abor- has killed a
tionists rely heavily upon these rare population
abortions to make their points, and more than
they do their very best to exaggerate that of these
their frequency. 18 states.

In reality, most abortions are

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