1. Abortion
is Wrong

2. WORLDWIDE
 Number of abortions per year:
Approximately 42 Million
 Number of abortions per day:
Approximately 115,000

3. Where abortions occur
 83% of all abortions are obtained in developing
countries and 17% occur in developed countries.
 United States:
Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million
(1996)
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700

4. Why women have abortions
• 1% of all abortions occur because of rape or
incest; 6% of abortions occur because of
potential health problems regarding either the
mother or child, and 93% of all abortions
occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is
unwanted or inconvenient).

5. Who's having abortions
(income)?
 Women with family incomes less than
$15,000 obtain 28.7% of all abortions;
Women with family incomes between
$15,000 and $29,999 obtain 19.5%; Women
with family incomes between $30,000 and
$59,999 obtain 38.0%; Women with family
incomes over $60,000 obtain 13.8%.

6. Who's having abortions
(marital status)?
 64.4%of all abortions are performed on
never-married women; Married women
account for 18.4% of all abortions and
divorced women obtain 9.4%.

7. ABORTION FATALITY
 In 2007, 6 women died as a result of
complications from known legal induced
abortion.
 The number of deaths attributable to legal
induced abortion was highest before the
1980s.
 In 1972 (the year before abortion was
federally legalized), a total of 24 women died
from causes known to be associated with
legal abortions, and 39 died as a result of
known illegal abortions.

8. THE COST OF ABORTION
 THE COST OF ABORTION
 In 2009, the average cost of a nonhospital
abortion with local anesthesia at 10 weeks
of gestation was $451 (AGI).

9. Morning after pill
 Large doses of existing birth control pills (or
another drug levonorgestrel, known as Plan B) are
given up to 72 hours after intercourse to attempt
to prevent the implantation of the embryo. A
second dose is given 12 hours after the first one.
The action of these large doses of hormones birth
control pills work to prevent ovulation and/or
fertilization.

10. RU-486
 When a woman is given RU-486 (also called
Mifepristone), it kills her baby by interfering with
progesterone, the hormone which keeps the baby
implanted in the wall of the mother’s uterus. Two days
later, the woman returns to the clinic to receive a
prostaglandin drug which induces labor and expels the
dead embryo (RU-486 is used until 7 weeks after the first
day of her last menstrual period). If the baby hasn’t
been expelled by the time the woman makes her third
visit to the doctor, she will require a surgical abortion
procedure (5-8% likelihood).

11. At what gestational ages are
abortions performed:
 52% of all abortions occur before the 9th
week of pregnancy, 25% happen
between the 9th & 10th week, 12%
happen between the 11th and 12th
week, 6% happen between the 13th &
15th week, 4% happen between the 16th
& 20th week, and 1% of all abortions
(16,450/yr.) happen after the 20th week of
pregnancy.

12. Some things to think about
 When you total up all forms of abortion, including those caused by
the abortion drug RU 486, the grand total comes to more than a
million abortions performed in the United States every single year.
 The number of American babies killed by abortion each year is
roughly equal to the number of U.S. military deaths that have
occurred in all of the wars that the United States has ever been
involved in combined.
 Approximately 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of the
destruction of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. Every single
day, more than 3,000 American babies are killed by abortion.
 The average cost of a vaginal birth with no complications in the
United States is now over $9,000.
 Planned Parenthood received more than 487 million dollars from
the federal government during 2010.

13. Abortion

14.  Studies confirming women who have
abortions face both depression and other
mental health problems.
 Other recent studies from the last two years
provide nearly irrefutable evidence that
abortion affects women in a myriad of ways
— making it so they face everything from
depression and relationship problems to PTSD
and elevated risks for abusing drugs or
alcohol.

15.  Approximately 52 percent of the early
abortion group and 67 percent of the late
term abortion group met the American
Psychological Association’s criteria for post-
traumatic stress disorder symptoms
 The survey also found the suicide rate among
women who had an abortion was six times
higher than for women who had given birth in
the prior year and double that of women who
had miscarriages.

17.  In the year following a pregnancy event, women
who choose abortion have a SIX times higher suicide
rate than women who choose to deliver.
 A baby boy abandoned by doctors to die after a
botched abortion was found to be still alive the next
morning and died the following day.
 The 22-week infant later died in intensive care at a
hospital in the mother's home town of Rossano in
southern Italy.
 The case has reignited controversy on the legality of
abortion in the devoutly Roman Catholic country.

20.  Don Marquis argues that killing is wrong
because it robs the victim of a future-all
possible ―experiences, activities, projects,
and enjoyments.‖ In the same way,
abortion is almost always wrong because
it deprives the fetus of an experienced
future.

21. Statistics
 California 214,190 abortions in 2008
 Ney York 153,110 abortions in 2008
 Wyoming 90 abortions on 2008
 ABORTION AND MINORS
 40% of minors having an abortion report that neither of their
parents knew about the abortion
 ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION
 Induced abortions usually result from unintended pregnancies,
which often occur despite the use of contraception (CDC).
 54% of women having abortions used a contraceptive method
during the month they became pregnant. Among those women,
76% of pill users and 49% of condom users reported using the
methods inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom
users reported correct use (AGI).
 9 in 10 women at risk of unintended pregnancy are using a
contraceptive method (AGI).

22. Stats cont.
 THE COST OF ABORTION
 Abortion Pill ("At home" abortion)1 $525.00
 Surgical Abortion up to 13 weeks1
 with General Anesthesia $450.00
 with Local Anesthesia $425.00
 Surgical Abortion over 13 weeks1,2
 13.5 to 16.0 weeks $765.00
 16.5 to 18.0 weeks $975.00
 18.5 to 19.0 weeks $1,175.00
 19.5 to 21.5 weeks $2,165.00

23.  HOW ARE ABORTIONS PERFORMED?
 In 2008, 84.6% of abortions were performed by curettage (which
includes dilatation and evacuation). Most curettage abortions are
suction procedures (CDC).
 WHEN DO ABORTIONS OCCUR?
 88-92% of all abortions happen during the first trimester, prior to the
13th week of gestation (AGI/CDC).
 In 2008, 7.3% of all abortions were performed at 14-20 weeks'
gestation; 1.3% were performed at ≥21 weeks' gestation (CDC).
 Percentage of 2008 Reported Abortions by Weeks of Gestation*
(CDC):
 ≤6 wks :30.7% 7 wks 18.1% 8 wks 14.0% 9 wks 9.6%
10 wks 6.8% 11 wks 5.3% 12 wks 4.0% 13 wks 2.9%
14-15 wks 3.5% 16-17 wks 2.0% 18-20 wks 1.9%
≥21 wks1.3%

24. WHY ARE ABORTIONS
PERFORMED?
 On average, women give at least 3 reasons
for choosing abortion: 3/4 say that having a
baby would interfere with work, school or
other responsibilities; about 3/4 say they
cannot afford a child; and 1/2 say they do
not want to be a single parent or are having
problems with their husband or partner.
 Only 12% of women included a physical
problem with their health among reasons for
having an abortion.
 One per cent (of aborting women) reported
that they were the survivors of rape.

25. ANNUAL ABORTION STATISTICS
 In 2008, approximately 1.21 million abortions
took place in the U.S., down from an
estimated 1.29 million in 2002, 1.31 million in
2000 and 1.36 million in 1996. From 1973
through 2008, nearly 50 million legal abortions
have occurred in the U.S.
 In 2008, the highest number of reported
abortions occurred in New York (124,867),
NYC (89,469), Florida (86,817) and Texas
(81,366); the fewest occurred in Wyoming
(≤4), South Dakota (848), North Dakota
(1,386), and Idaho (1,481).

26. Abortions in the United States
 Total number of abortions in the U.S. 1973-
2011: 54.5 million+
 234 abortions per 1,000 live births (according
to the Centers for Disease Control)
 Abortions per year: 1.2 million
 Abortions per day: 3,288
 Abortions per hour: 137
 9 abortions every 4 minutes
 1 abortion every 26 seconds

27.  “Killing
someone is wrong, primarily
because the killing inflicts (one of) the
greatest possible losses on the victim”—
Don Marquis. 613.2.3.

28.  Life is non arguably the greatest gift/treasure.
 (I would rather feel something than absolutely
nothing. Subjective, yes, but ―Life is what you make
it‖.)
 Choice [[Insert the ―I don’t want to live on this planet
anymore‖ meme]]
 (How can someone else decide who gets to live? Life
can be miserable at times, but life is filled with
plateaus that you must overcome. If you really
despise your existence that much, by all means go
ahead and commit suicide (but please seek help
first). It’s inevitably up to the individual.)

29.  Deprives us of experiences, activities, projects, and other enjoyments.
 (Possible counter argument: Also deprives the mother of such
experiences.)
 Nothing is 100% pregnancy proof except for the abstinence of sex. This
doesn’t mean necessarily to completely rid of someone’s pleasure/bond
with your partner because of that possibility, just be AWARE that it is a
possibility. Also, would you really take away a person’s greatest gift, just
to make your life easier? Comfort > life?
 [[insert picture of kids happy playing together or something. LOL]]
 What could have been
 (There are always questions about who that fetus/baby could have
been. Who would have that person affected? If they had any
contributions to society/to the world? Would I have been able to
support the baby if I decided to have it?)
 (Counter argument: What about Hitler?) [[Insert picture of Hitler and
Gandhi side by side]]
 His acts were despicable and overall morally wrong. Are we going to
stop having babies because of that fear of our kin becoming evil
entities? There are also good people being born, don’t forget that
(Gandhi). We also learn from our past and vow to never make the same
mistakes, hopefully.

30.  ― How complete an account of the wrongness of
killing does the value of a future-like-ours account
have to be in order that the wrongness of abortion
is a consequence?‖ –Don Marquis. 617.1.2.
 (If killing is wrong, does that make the
discontinuation of potential life wrong also?)
 Discontinuation account- ending someone’s life
outside the womb. (Obviously immoral)
 Desire account- preventing the life of someone
outside the womb. (Is this immoral also? We say
yes.)

31.  Taking away the potential of life is morally
wrong. It doesn’t matter where you end the
life.
 (Inside or outside of womb, you’re still
considered killing)
 Removing a baby from your womb is not like
removing a limb or tissue from your body. It
does not have the potential to grow or think
like a human being. It cannot live on its’ own.
Whereas a fetus have every potential to grow
and eventually contribute to society.

32.  EX:Imagine a nursing home. Some say
they lack valuable human futures and are
unable to respond at all anymore. It is still
wrong to kill them just because they can’t
contribute to society nor react to their
surroundings, right? How does it make it
morally permissible to terminate a fetus,
which has the fullest life potential?