Abortions...an excerpt from a Facebook conversation I’ve been having...
Most abortions are performed in the first trimester. Per the CDC reporting for the past several years, I'm able to find no data that supports your assertion that most abortions are performed with medicine. Only that per this article http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/psrh.46e0414.pdf
"Medication abortion accounted for 23% of all nonhospital abortions and 36% of abortions before nine weeks’ gestation, in 2011." Which would mean you're either lying intentionally or ill-informed. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and hope it's the latter.
The last solid numbers I found were 91.4% of abortions performed at <13weeks, 7.2% of abortions between 14-20weeks and 1.3% at greater than 20 weeks. I hate dealing with %'s though because it takes away from the shocking numbers of murders that take place every year in the US. So, for the duration of my comment, I'll use the term "murder" instead of "abortion".
Here's the breakdown. 2012 saw 699,202 legal murders in the US. 639,070 were performed in the first 13 weeks. 50,342 people were murdered during the 14th-20th week. and the final 6,992 after the 20th week. (For some reason, the CDC was able to have partial numbers and doesn't blatantly list their margins of error, but these numbers are close enough to play with.) (Source: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6410a1.htm?s_cid=ss6410a1_e )
Of the 639,070 persons murdered at less than 13 weeks, the killer used one of the following tools:
Methotrexate & Misoprostol (MTX):
Mifepristone and Misoprostol:
Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA):
Aspiration:
Of the 50,342 people murdered after 13 weeks, the killer was forced to use surgical abortion. Nearing the end of 13 weeks, medicine based abortions are no longer legal or viable means of murdering the child.
The murder weapons below are utilized at this point.
Dilation & Curettage (D & C):
Dilation & Evacuation (D & E):
Induction Abortion:
And of the 6,992 murders, there were performed using one of the aforementioned techniques.
Induction Abortion: a rarely done surgical procedure where salt water, urea, or potassium chloride is injected into the amniotic sac; prostaglandins are inserted into the vagina and pitocin is injected intravenously.
Dilation and Extraction: a surgical abortion procedure used to terminate a pregnancy after 21 weeks of gestation. This procedure is also known as D & X, Intact D & X, Intrauterine Cranial Decompression and Partial Birth Abortion.
The government shouldn't tell you what to do with your body. I'm an ultra libertarian, nearly an An-Cap, but society has an obligation to stop one party from using force against another. Murdering someone is within the gov't ability to stop and adjudicate.
As far as adopting children, I am adopted. My mother was a 16 year old pregnant teen and my grandparents were able to support her until she was married and my father adopted me. Luckily I didn't end up as an abortion, or living in a state ran adoption facility.
And yes, the genocide of Native Americans is also covered under the same sociological principles of common purpose and diffusion of responsibility. You could also use the genocide's of Darfur and Rwanda. Or, my favorite example, the genocides of nearly a million children a year by their own parents.
As for rape and incest, this is the favorite cry of those who would seek to continue state sanctioned murder. Anonymous and identified interviews with 1000's of women showed that rape and incest counted for less than a percent of a percent of abortions(That's 1% of 1%). You can check out those #'s here https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3711005.pdf
74% & 73% (applicants could choose more than one answer) said that having a baby would interfere with their job/career and that they couldn't afford a baby right now.
Sources:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6410a1.htm?s_cid=ss6410a1_e
http://americanpregnancy.org/unplanned-pregnancy/abortion-procedures/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion#Medical
http://www.webmd.com/women/manual-and-vacuum-aspiration-for-abortion#tn10211
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3711005.pdf
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/psrh.46e0414.pdf