What Ever Happened to Safe, Legal & Rare?

News from the Guttmacher Institute, which was widely circulated yesterday, revealed that the number of abortions in the United States has risen slightly. Guttmacher is the reporting arm for Planned Parenthood and is considered to have very accurate abortion figures; more so than the Center for Disease Control, because Guttmacher receives it's numbers directly from the abortion businesses and accounts for all 50 states. Please note, we said the abortion business. Abortion is a business ... a big business ... well funded ... well staffed and with well thought out strategy.

Here's the info. The abortion rate, which is the percentage of pregnancies which end in abortion, had reached their lowest point in 2005. Now it has gone up, from a rate of 19.4% of pregnancies ending in abortion in 2005, to 19.6% in 2008.

A Guttmacher researcher for the Institute said, she believed the downturn in the economy had a role in the slight upturn in the abortion numbers. Rachel Jones said, "We expect that the economy did impact unintended pregnancy and abortion, but other factors did as well."

Perhaps those other factors may be Planned Parenthood's emphasis on chemical abortions and "mega clinics" in urban areas.

Guttmacher admits, that looking only at the relatively small change in national numbers, hides the substantial change in some states. Take for instance New York. (see our blog on New York abortion statistics for more information).

Guttmacher's report found an increase in chemical abortions, especially RU486. They found, that out of 199,000 reported abortions, 16% of that total had used the drug RU486. This truly is cause for concern because RU486 is a very dangerous drug. We will never know the actual number of women, who have had serious health problems, including hemorrhages or ruptured ectopic pregnancies, who have used the drug.

Pro-abortion advocates have long claimed, that they want abortion to be safe, legal and rare; yet these statistics proves quite the opposite. Abortion is not safe, legal and certainly not rare, but increasingly very profitable.