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The founder of NRAL has admitted that the numbers were grossly exaggerated because they needed an image of carnage so that the public would support their cause.
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Did he admit this voluntarily? Or was he forced to admit that there were no hard numbers (not enough reported cases) for to support his claim.
the FACT is, that when something such as this is illegal (and at the time quite shameful, as it should be now in a lot of cases), people don't report it. They do it very, very quietly. How do you count what is hidden?
Here's the bottom line for me. You are trying to legislate morality. This also applies to many other areas of law besides abortion. In my view it's the job of the social and spiritual leaders to to knit together a cohesive population of right thinking and right acting people. If folks were still being raised by principled example, perhaps the religious community wouldn't have so many of the flock wandering astray. Or is it ... if the religious and social structure (the village) has failed enough that folks are raised without principled example.
There appears to be the same problem with both views on this issue. In the end, people are going to do it anyway if they don't posses the moral responsibility of their actions. You can't legislate that. In the end, young girls and tiny humans die.
IMHO, the enormous amounts of energy and money wasted on fighting this battle at the government level would be exponentially better used to minister to our villages. That's not to say you need to go forth and introduce people to your religion at every opportunity, but simply serve the less fortunate.
The "less fortunate". This is a term that has become far too narrow in my opinion. It has nothing to do with economics, and everything to do with a persons spiritual state. in the circumstance of abortion, ANY woman facing that decision is in a less fortunate state.
I think we can all minister to our villages by being good people, friends and neighbors. Not necessarily in a strictly religious sense, but in a spirit of humanity sense as well. The only way to rid ourselves of the social ills that plague us is to make sure that that we have a strong social/community structure.
I'm sorry, but I get pretty cheesed off when I see protesters outside clinics heckling woman as they go in. Not in defense of the choice these women have made. Not because it's pouring salt in an already sore wound. But because you are there criticizing a decision that has already been made, instead of out in your community trying to intervene before the circumstances that lead to abortion as a choice can take place.
How many people are involved in the abortion issue. I mean actively involved? 1 million? 5 million? 10 million? More? How much money, time and resources are poured into protesting, lobbyists, political campaigns, advertising and the like? $10 million? $100 million?
IMHO, it's not the addition of abortions clinics or well armed gangs or drugs that is the source of these ills. It's the absence of community, the disappearing neighborhood block parties, civic groups, safe public areas, and reasons to turn off the TV and get out of the house. It's the loss of kick the can and American heroes that are remembered for more than 15 minutes.
This fix and so many others will never be attained at the national level. It's a community thing. A family thing. A personal thing.