One in every four children conceived in CA victim of abortion
Nearly one of every four babies conceived in California dies at the hands of an abortionist, according to a report published by the Sacramento Bee.
The Jan. 13 story, based on a study from the Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit pro-abortion group originally affiliated with Planned Parenthood, said that about 214,000 abortions were performed in California in 2008 – 18 percent of all abortions in the U.S.
“The abortion rate in California has declined sharply over the last two decades, but remains higher than the nationwide rate, according to a new study from the nonpartisan Guttmacher Institute,” the Bee reported. “About 24 percent of pregnancies in California ended with an abortion during 2008, the study found. Nationwide, about 19 percent of pregnancies ended in abortion.”
Of the estimated 214,000 abortions in California in 2008, approximately 95,000 were paid for from public funds – “about half of the nation's publicly-funded abortions that year,” said the Bee report.
“The steady decline in the U.S. abortion rate since 1981 appears to have stalled, new Guttmacher Institute research finds,” said a Jan. 11 press release from the Institute. “The 2008 rate stood at 19.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44, significantly below the 1981 peak (29.3 abortions for every 1,000 women). However, the 2008 abortion rate was virtually unchanged from the 2005 rate (19.4 abortions). Likewise, the total number of abortions in 2008 (1.21 million) was essentially unchanged from 2005.”
“In this time of heightened politicization around abortion, our stalled progress should be an urgent message to policymakers that we need to do more to increase access to contraceptive services to prevent unintended pregnancy, while ensuring access to abortion services for the many women who still need them,” Sharon Camp, president and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute, said in a prepared statement.
Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, said the Guttmacher findings were not unexpected. “We’re not surprised to see the stalled decline in abortions,” said Yoest in a prepared statement issued by AUL after the Guttmacher study was published. “Planned Parenthood has an aggressively pro-abortion business model, marketing chemical abortions and opening ‘mega clinics’ in low-income communities. That’s a deadly one-two punch.”
“By pushing physicians and facilities to prescribe pills to accomplish abortions without a doctor’s visit, Planned Parenthood is pushing the limit of the law and common sense to increase the numbers of abortion,” said Yoest.
