[Grovenet] God forbid there should be a Freudian slip

[David Morelli]

On Aug 31, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Steven wrote:

> At what point should it be considered murder? Shouldn't we set some  
> limit?  With drugs such as RU486, the concept of abortion as a  
> method of birth control should be out the window. As a medical  
> procedure, fine.

The whole abortion issue is very complex and highly charged with  
emotion.

The current US birth rate is somewhere around 14 births per 1,000.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/aabirthrate.htm


The current US human induced abortion rate is about 20 abortions per  
1,000
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18183734



That suggests that conceptions that result in a live birth or a human  
induced abortion run about 34 per 1,000 women.  More or less.



We also have spontaneous abortions that result in miscarriages and  
still births.  It is estimated that about half of all fertilized eggs  
are lost without the woman becoming aware of the pregnancy, and that  
15-20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriages.

http://www.birth.com.au/Info.asp?class=6620&page=1

This last set of information suggests that the US sees a rate  
somewhere around 40 natural miscarriages per 1,000 women.

What ever the real numbers are, I see that more women, who may want  
to carry a child to term, lose it to an "Act of God" than women, who  
are not willing to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, terminate it  
with an abortion.

There are all sorts of possible conclusions that could come from this  
information.  As Senator Obama said we can agree that we want fewer  
unwanted pregnancies, and I would add, we want healthier births of  
desired children.

David