Boy, did you make a mistake! The table was posted on a prolife webite. HOWEVER, the data comes from this journal article: agi-usa.org
Notice the "agi" in the link? That stands for the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which publishes the Family Planning Perspectives journal. Now, what is the Alan Guttmacher Institute and who was Alan Guttmacher? Let's see:
ALAN F. GUTTMACHER 1898-1974
The Alan Guttmacher Institute, an independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization with offices in New York and Washington, D.C., was established in 1968 to provide research, policy analysis and education in the fields of reproductive health, reproductive rights and population. It was named to honor a distinguished obstetrician-gynecologist, author and leader in reproductive rights. While Alan F. Guttmacher was president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and a leader in the International Planned Parenthood Federation in the 1960s and early 1970s, he saw the need for the institution that now bears his name, and he nurtured its development.
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He joined the birth control movement in the 1920s when he was an intern, after witnessing a woman die from a botched abortion. In Baltimore, he was an effective advocate, organizer and worker for family planning at The Johns Hopkins and Sinai Hospitals and the Planned Parenthood affiliate. Following his appointment as Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital in 1952, he assumed increasing leadership of the national Planned Parenthood organization, first as member, then as volunteer chairman of Planned Parenthood's National Medical Committee and, in 1962, as full-time national President.
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"No woman is completely free unless she is wholly capable of controlling her fertility and...no baby receives its full birthright unless it is born gleefully wanted by its parents."
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He had the satisfaction of witnessing many of the principles of voluntary fertility control to which he devoted his life inscribed in the law of the land by the U.S. Supreme Count in the Griswold and Baird cases on contraception and the Wade and Bolton cases on abortion.
agi-usa.org
Well, what do you know.
I wouldn't believe any statistic presented by this
anti-choice group!
Not even if the statistic was published by a pro-choice journal, apparently.
I wouldn't believe them on anything they have to say, as
they are totally biased.
Have a change of mind, now? |
