Tuesday, May 24, 2011

National Right to Life Responds to Latest Guttmacher Report

National Right to Life Committee has issued a press release response to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute which says there was an 8% drop in abortion rates from 2000 to 2008.
“Guttmacher suggests that higher abortion rates among poorer woman and abortion restrictions are somehow connected, yet it’s a thesis that goes undefended,” O’Bannon further noted. “How common sense regulations like right-to-know laws, which tell women about abortion’s risks and alternatives which are better for both them and their unborn children, and similar protective measures, are supposed to hurt poor women is hard to fathom.”

The overall downward trend seems to indicate that such laws, along with the assistance provided by pregnancy care centers, which provide lifesaving alternatives to abortion, are enabling more women to choose life for their unborn child. However, several states – California, New York and at least a dozen others – publicly fund abortion for poor women. “While the abortion industry saw declines among most demographic groups, it just happened to see growth among women for whom states were covering abortion costs,” observed O’Bannon.

The fact is, when tax dollars pay for abortion, you get more abortion,” O’Bannon observed.

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