Chapter 18: Myth—Abortion Doesn’t Matter

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Myth—Abortion Doesn’t Matter

event or all the events in life actually unfold. Some strange things can occur that no one can predict. Even when something seemingly bad occurs in life,

it can actually turn into something good. And sometimes there are many unintended consequences hard to predict.

Unintended Political Consequences Of Roe v. Wade!

Take the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. Today, over 40 million babies have been aborted. As horrific as this statistic is, I just read some interesting statistics in a political study 3 of who is actually getting aborted. Children generally pick up and adopt the politics of their parents. Strangely

enough, democrats or liberals are more apt, by one third, to abort their babies than republicans or conservatives are to abort theirs. Given known statistical data of abortions by year, who is getting abortions and what their political affiliation is, it can be accurately predicted who is being politically

affected by the aborting [killing] of their own children. As it turns out, there are now millions of more missing liberal voters than conservative voters. Who could anticipate that the killing of babies by abortion would actually wind up giving an edge to one political party over the other?

3 Table 1: Abortions in the U.S., 1973-1990

Years Abortions Aggregated Election Affected

1973-74 1,643,200 1,643,200 1992 1975-78 4,939,800 6,583,000 1996

1979-82 6,202,800 12,785,800 2000

1983-86 6,314,800 19,100,600 2004 1987-90 6,325,400 25,426,000 2008

The Larry L. Eastland 3 study presents some interesting conclusions:

1. Six out of 10 Americans call themselves conservatives. Only a quarter of them are having abortions.