Facts and Figures

Every 23 Seconds,
A Baby Dies From Abortion

1. “Facts in Brief,” rev. Feb. 2000, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

Every Body Part Is Present Prior
to the Earliest Abortions

By 21 days, the heart is pumping blood. Arms and legs bud at 28 days. Brain is existent by 30 days. By 35 days, mouth, ears
and nose are taking shape.

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Brainwaves can be recorded and heartbeat detected at 40 days. By 42 days the skeleton is formed, the brain is controlling the movement of muscles and organs and the unborn reflexively responds to stimuli. This all takes place before the earliest surgical abortions are performed.

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78% of the nation would ban 97% of all abortions performed in this country.

The Boston Globe,
31 March 1989

77% of Americans believe abortion takes a human life.

Only 11% of Americans have an accurate understanding that
abortion is available throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

“Abortion and Moral Beliefs: A Survey of American Opinion,” by the Gallup Organization,
commissioned by Americans United for Life, Washington, DC, 1991, 9, 10, 13.

A leading international expert on child abuse, writes “...elective abortion is an important cause of child abuse.”

P. Ney, M.D., “Relationship Between Induced Abortion and Child Abuse and Neglect: Four Studies” Pre and Perinatal Psychology Journal, 8(1), Fall 1993

There has been a 1,796% increase in child abuse cases, or 18 times higher, since abortion was legalized.

1. Report of the National Center of Child Abuse and Neglect, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1973-1982
2. Child Abuse and Neglect Reports 1997, www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/8460/1997abstattables.html.

Abortion Is Causing A Population

Since 1972 the average in America has been 1.8 children,¹ below the 2.1 needed for zero population growth. Any increases in population since 1972 has been due to immigration.

By 1980 there were 6.5 million fewer school age children than just a decade earlier. This required the closing of 9,000 elementary schools.
Newsweek, 30 March 1981, cited by Willke, Abortion Questions, 159

Embryo is used of any living creature at an early stage of development. Fetus is a Latin word meaning “offspring,” “young one,” or “little child.”

In 1972, the year before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide, only 39 women died from abortion related complications. In 1977, after abortion was legal for five years, 21 women died.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Disease Control

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League), admits his group lied about the number of women who died from illegal abortion when testifying before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972: “We spoke of ‘5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year.’ I confess that I knew the figures were totally false…”

In 1960, Planned Parenthood stated that “90% of all illegal abortions are presently done by physicians,”¹ by “reputable physicians in good standing in their local medical associations.”²
1. Mary Calderone, “Illegal Abortion as a Public Health Problem,” American Journal of Health 50 (July 1960): 949
2. Alfred Kinsey, cited by John Willke, Abortion Questions and Answers (Cincinnati, Ohio: Hayes Publishing Co., 1988), 169.

Pre Born Are Patients In Fetal Surgeries

Over 100 open surgeries for spina bifida have been performed on unborn children since 1995. During fetal surgery, the mother’s body is surgically opened and the uterus is extracted and opened for a pediatric neurosurgeon to work on the unborn child.

“The Tiniest Patient,” p. 2, Focus on the Family magazine, January 2001.
Side note: The fetal surgeon, Dr. Joseph Bruner, featured in the photo also aborts pre born children.  

The entire world population of 5.4 billion people, standing several feet apart, would cover an area of less than 800 square miles—the size of Jacksonville, Florida.
Marilyn vos Savant, “The World,” Reader’s Digest, February 1992, 91.

Every global inhabitant could be placed in one gigantic city within the borders of Texas, with a smaller population density than many cities around the world.

Every day Planned Parenthood (PP) kills 540 babies, totaling 197,100 in 2000, but referred for only 2,495 adoptions. For every one adoption referral, they aborted 79 babies. According to their 2000 annual report, they took in a record $69 million by performing abortions.

During 1999, gifts from corporations, foundations and others added up to $160 million.

In the past 15 years, PP has raked in nearly $2.2 billion tax dollars. Even though they enjoy a non-profit tax status, they posted a profit of over $125 million in 1999.

PP’s president, Gloria Feldt, receives a salary of $324,217 a year (that’s averaging $6,235 per week!)

“The incidence of serious, permanent psychiatric aftermath [of abortion] is variously reported as between 9% and 59%.” (117,000-767,000 women per year.) emphasis added Reardon, Aborted Women, Westchester, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1987, 119

1% of women who abort are “so severely scarred by post-abortion trauma that they become unable to function normally.” (1% of women totals 13,000 per year and over 250,000 women since abortion was legalized.) emphasis added John Leo, “Moral Complexity of Choice,” U.S. News and World Report, 11 December 1989, 64.

Abortion Is a Big Money-Maker

A year 2000 government-funded study in Finland revealed that women who abort are 4 times more likely to die in the year following the abortion than women who carry their pregnancies to term; 60% are more likely to die from natural causes, 7 times more likely to die from suicide, 4 times more likely to die from injuries related to accidents and 14 times more likely to die from homicide.

Abortion Providers Often Target
African-American Women

According to Michigan vital statistics, in 1987 there were 49,000 abortions done. When public funding was cut off, there was a significant drop and continues to drop. In 1999, the figure was 26,200, a decline of about 53%.

In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a Planned Parenthood facility began performing abortions and that county saw an increase of abortions by 1,000% even though the number of abortion chambers statewide declined from 117 to 112 in 2000.

Suicide Rates Higher
Among Aborted Women

Women who have had abortions are 9 times more likely to attempt suicide than women in the general population.

Reardon, Aborted Women: Silent No More Westchester, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1987, 129

Women’s World reports a study of aborted women in which 45% said they had thoughts of suicide following their abortions.
Martina Mahler, “Abortion: The Pain No One Talks About,” Women’s World, 24 September 1991, 6.

“Hard Cases” Are Rare

According to an abortion advocate group, “Today it is possible for almost any patient to be brought through pregnancy alive, unless she suffers from a fatal illness such as cancer or leukemia, and, if so, abortion would be unlikely to prolong, much less save, life.”

Alan F. Guttmacher, “Abortion—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” in The Case for Legalized Abortion Now (Berkeley, Calif.: Diablo Press, 1967).

Less than 1% of all abortions are performed to save the mother’s life.

Landrum Shettles and David Rorvik, Rites of Life (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1983), 129.