In 1985, in Ohio, there were 1000-odd PBA's? Hard to say, there's some controversy on statistics, and the PBA terminology apparently didn't even exist at the time. The number of abortions in general have come down a lot since then, which most of us would be happy about. Can't speak for the absolutists, though. Wouldn't want to do the fear-mongering thing for Mr. K.
On the off chance that you might want to read some information from what seems to be a fairly authoritative source, there's this from agi-usa.org .
ISSUES IN BRIEF
The Limitations of U.S. Statistics on Abortion
In the spring of 1995, a new issue arose in the bitter abortion debate that has divided Americans for 25 years. It was the use in some instances of a procedure to terminate late-term pregnancies known as intact dilatation and extraction, or D&X. Abortion opponents dubbed the procedure "partial-birth abortion."
The CDC reports group all abortions after 20 weeks of gestation into one category. After the CDC figures are adjusted for underreporting, approximately 16,450 procedures, or roughly 1% of all abortions in 1992, were estimated to have been performed beyond 20 weeks since the woman's last menstrual period (see Table 1).
Regarding methods of pregnancy termination, 86% of all late abortions appear to be performed by dilatation and evacuation (D&E), and most of the remainder by inducing labor. There is no information on the number performed by D&X, which is a type of D&E.
You can save the usual regurgitation of the gory details, I assure you there are plenty too many gory details about handgun deaths too. I'll have to look around a bit more for those statistics.
Apologies to all for once again polluting this august forum with my "feelings and emotions", as opposed to the "facts and substance" that normally finds favor here. |
