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I received this email this morning and I guess I just couldn’t believe the statistics about abortion! How could we be so blinded!
"More “Straight Talk” from Michael Galloway, founder, Catholic Online, and co-founder, Your Catholic Voice Foundation (YCVF).
http://catholic.org/blast/col/images/mike.jpg Statistics, Lies and the Simple Truth
A Reminder: What we know about the
rate of abortion.
Why don’t enough of us care any more?
Mark Twain’s statement regarding statistics is often quoted and needn’t be repeated here. It’s enough to say Mr. Clemens believed even reliable statistics were unsafe in the hands of manipulative people. He was right.
You’ve seen the statistics regarding the prevalence of abortion. Abortion is a common medical procedure. Always wrong. Altogether too common. You’ve seen the figures. They’re staggering. Those who actually support the killing of pre-born children suggest that 1.31 million babies are aborted each year. As a culture, we’ve been doing this legally at a steady pace for decades. The numbers add up. The most conservative estimates result in a total of over 40 million unborn children aborted since 1973. More than a few estimates approach or exceed 50 million. Fifty million babies! Fifty million! Let’s think about that single statistical reality.
No manipulation here. The Centers for Disease Control, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood.they use each other’s statistical information, and they all agree. We’ve been killing our pre-born babies at a horrific rate, and most people.too many conscionable neighbors among them.accept the figures with a practiced sense of recognition and detachment. Why the absence of alarm? What does 40 to 50 million dead people look like anyway?
Imagine you named each one after Mr. Guttmacher. And allow yourself a choice, boy or girl, Alan or Aileen. Think of each deserving Guttmacher baby strolling across a graduation stage at the announcement of each name, at least five syllables each. Maybe you could read as many 30 or more a minute. Thirty would be a pretty steady pace. If a team of readers read all the names (and here we’ll use the conservative figure of 40 million total), and you and your team of volunteers took turns and read for ten hours a day, you’d still be reading the names of the dead nearly seven years later.
Fifty million people? Can you grasp it? It’s similar to the numbers of people who vote as either Republicans or Democrats in a national U.S. presidential election. Choose. Eliminate everybody who voted in the last election as a Democrat or as a Republican. Go ahead. Choose. That’s fifty million people. Think of a football stadium crammed with 100,000 partisan fans, people gathered for the national NCAA championship. Add a few more games, and you have the entire BCS. Now, systematically eliminate all those fans just as abortionists have systematically eliminated the pre-born, and you’d need ticket stubs that stretch back a century or more before you’d completely empty the stands.
Fifty million people? Lose the West Coast. That’s right. The whole thing. Everybody in California, Oregon and Washington State. Go ahead, throw in Alaska. Everyone. You could lose most of the East Coast, if you preferred. It’s a matter of choice, and it’s fifty million people.
You know these statistics, you say. Begin counting, count 24/7 and it would take almost two weeks to count to 1 million. Counting to 40 million or more would take you . . . what . . . a year and a half? You know all that. At some point, you’ve probably been asked by an elementary school teacher to consider the reality of a million of this or a million of that. Most have.
Here’s the deal. We aren’t talking mere numbers here. Fifty million isn’t just a number. Fifty million isn’t just a statistical reality that defines the debate between those who support abortion and those who oppose it.
We’re talking about people, fifty million of them created in the image of God. Each one precious, vital and meaningful. That’s what the number 50,000,000 represents. But sadly, not now living, breathing people. Not the millions who hear their names announced during graduation ceremonies. Not the millions who vote in presidential elections. Not the millions who attend college football championships. Not the millions who actually live on the West Coast, the East Coast, nor those who live in the Heartland.
"More “Straight Talk” from Michael Galloway, founder, Catholic Online, and co-founder, Your Catholic Voice Foundation (YCVF).
http://catholic.org/blast/col/images/mike.jpg Statistics, Lies and the Simple Truth
A Reminder: What we know about the
rate of abortion.
Why don’t enough of us care any more?
Mark Twain’s statement regarding statistics is often quoted and needn’t be repeated here. It’s enough to say Mr. Clemens believed even reliable statistics were unsafe in the hands of manipulative people. He was right.
You’ve seen the statistics regarding the prevalence of abortion. Abortion is a common medical procedure. Always wrong. Altogether too common. You’ve seen the figures. They’re staggering. Those who actually support the killing of pre-born children suggest that 1.31 million babies are aborted each year. As a culture, we’ve been doing this legally at a steady pace for decades. The numbers add up. The most conservative estimates result in a total of over 40 million unborn children aborted since 1973. More than a few estimates approach or exceed 50 million. Fifty million babies! Fifty million! Let’s think about that single statistical reality.
No manipulation here. The Centers for Disease Control, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood.they use each other’s statistical information, and they all agree. We’ve been killing our pre-born babies at a horrific rate, and most people.too many conscionable neighbors among them.accept the figures with a practiced sense of recognition and detachment. Why the absence of alarm? What does 40 to 50 million dead people look like anyway?
Imagine you named each one after Mr. Guttmacher. And allow yourself a choice, boy or girl, Alan or Aileen. Think of each deserving Guttmacher baby strolling across a graduation stage at the announcement of each name, at least five syllables each. Maybe you could read as many 30 or more a minute. Thirty would be a pretty steady pace. If a team of readers read all the names (and here we’ll use the conservative figure of 40 million total), and you and your team of volunteers took turns and read for ten hours a day, you’d still be reading the names of the dead nearly seven years later.
Fifty million people? Can you grasp it? It’s similar to the numbers of people who vote as either Republicans or Democrats in a national U.S. presidential election. Choose. Eliminate everybody who voted in the last election as a Democrat or as a Republican. Go ahead. Choose. That’s fifty million people. Think of a football stadium crammed with 100,000 partisan fans, people gathered for the national NCAA championship. Add a few more games, and you have the entire BCS. Now, systematically eliminate all those fans just as abortionists have systematically eliminated the pre-born, and you’d need ticket stubs that stretch back a century or more before you’d completely empty the stands.
Fifty million people? Lose the West Coast. That’s right. The whole thing. Everybody in California, Oregon and Washington State. Go ahead, throw in Alaska. Everyone. You could lose most of the East Coast, if you preferred. It’s a matter of choice, and it’s fifty million people.
You know these statistics, you say. Begin counting, count 24/7 and it would take almost two weeks to count to 1 million. Counting to 40 million or more would take you . . . what . . . a year and a half? You know all that. At some point, you’ve probably been asked by an elementary school teacher to consider the reality of a million of this or a million of that. Most have.
Here’s the deal. We aren’t talking mere numbers here. Fifty million isn’t just a number. Fifty million isn’t just a statistical reality that defines the debate between those who support abortion and those who oppose it.
We’re talking about people, fifty million of them created in the image of God. Each one precious, vital and meaningful. That’s what the number 50,000,000 represents. But sadly, not now living, breathing people. Not the millions who hear their names announced during graduation ceremonies. Not the millions who vote in presidential elections. Not the millions who attend college football championships. Not the millions who actually live on the West Coast, the East Coast, nor those who live in the Heartland.
but we’ll take what we can get, I guess.
