LifeCare Center For Women Abortion Myths

Thousands of women died every year from illegal abortion before Roe V. Wade legalized abortion.

According to the Center for Disease Control, the exact number is 39 and 27 more from legal abortions (in states where the procedure was already legal in 1972 before Roe.)

Legalized abortion has been good for women.

Abortion fosters an attitude and a culture of sexual irresponsibility by promising no consequences. It has not reduced child abuse, illegitimacy or reduced poverty. Medical and emotional problems for women abound.

Women really need abortion for health reasons.

An Alan Guttmacher Institute survey found that nearly one half of women obtaining abortions said they used no birth control method during the month they
got pregnant.

Add to this the fact that at most, only 7% of all abortions are done for the mother's physical or psychological health. Rape and incest are cited as reasons for less than 1% of all abortions.

Nationally, 82% of women obtaining abortions are unmarried. The statistics strongly suggest abortion is used as birth control.

No one knows when human life begins.

The California Medical Association referred to "The scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception, and is continuous whether intra- or extra-uterine until death."

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