tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408995960088977639.post1206188218687942090..comments2023-09-03T06:27:31.792-04:00Comments on THE SOMETIMES PREACHER: Abortion Survivors--Who Knew?andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417720112665220722noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408995960088977639.post-41781671242823806042008-06-09T09:20:00.000-04:002008-06-09T09:20:00.000-04:00that was an eye-catching article. I saw it on BBC....that was an eye-catching article. I saw it on BBC. It certainly was on Fox, as was a litany of Hollywood gossip prominently displayed on 'Features and Faces'. Same as you, I couldn't find it on the NY Times, though there was a corresponding dearth of trash news as well:)<BR/><BR/>I had not heard that this sort of this happens regularly - regardless of nrlc's definition of 'abortion survivor' - http://www.nrlc.org/news/2002/NRL04/ten.html - though I imagine it would be extremely difficult to get accurate numbers<BR/><BR/>...but it is useful to note the underlying symptoms of statistics such as the aforementioned 25% U.S. abortion rate (more precisely 22-22.4%) - such as the very high rate of U.S. teenage pregnancy (relative to Western Europe), and the corresponding effect this has on abortion rates. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1705604,00.html<BR/><BR/>an interesting side note to this is U.S. AIDS policies in Africa - and the ways in which U.S. govt. funding is meted out on an ideological basis - ie. the well-known "Global Gag Rule" - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3139120.stm - that links funding of AIDS prevention with restrictions on abortion and contraceptives.<BR/><BR/>Abortion and the attendant moral questions are not issues unique to the U.S, though given the extremely vocal, vitriolic, and proscriptive nature of American engagement with the issue an outside observer might be forgiven for thinking so. <BR/><BR/>LBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com