According to the most up to date estimates available from the National Right to Life, there were 1,287,000 abortions performed in the United States in 2004.
I personally found this number to be appalling, especially considering that three-quarters of women who had aborted a fetus stated that the reason they were getting an abortion was because they could not afford a child. This means that money, the lack of financial security, is the reason for 75% of all abortions performed in the United States. For 2004, that’s equivalent to 965,250 lives being extinguished for fear of poverty.
I found this to be absolutely horrific, however, there is a way to save all those lives and prevent millions of innocent souls from being aborted. The solution is simple, instead of giving $700 billion to rich bankers for their crimes, we could provide financial assistance to all expecting mothers.
The 2007 median income in the United States was $50,740. If we guaranteed that in the first year after giving birth all women would receive the median income in the United States, then approximately 1 million additional miracles, as Bill Hicks would put it, could be born into this world. In fact, based on this median income, the proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street could prevent the next 13,795,822 abortions. At current rates, that’s approximately equivalent to all the abortions that will be performed in the United States for the next 10 years.
But it gets even better than this. The official poverty threshold in the United States for a two person family unit is $14,000. Since fear of living in poverty is the main reason for most women getting an abortion, then if we commit to keeping all expecting mothers above the poverty line, we should be able to save millions of lives not only in the United States but the world.
If we commit to this, than the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street could prevent the next 50 million abortions. Now isn’t that a kicker. But it even gets better than this.
By bailing out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the United States government added an additional $5.5 trillion to the US national debt. Based on the US poverty threshold, if we guaranteed to keep expecting mothers above the poverty line for the first year after giving birth, then we could save 392,857,143 lives. That’s more than the total population of the United States right now, and 8 times the total number all abortions since 1973 and Roe v. Wade.
If organizations and individuals that cherished the sanctity of life wanted to prevent the majority of abortions in the United States then they could. It is a fact that poverty and abortion are related, so it is up to us to choose what is more important to us, saving bankers or the unborn.
I hope that all those Pro-lifers and Conservatives who think voting into office the same people who are robbing the nation and causing all these abortions get to see these numbers.
Who would you save, the banker or the fetus?
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