End this Madness: Horrific stats on late term abortions in America

“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” ~ Joseph Stalin

As if the overall tally isn't horrific enough (over 56 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973), the stats on late term abortions in America today is unacceptably staggering as well. And on Monday, the CBO let us know just how much...in both quantity and callousness...

CNSNews: Unborn babies who have reached at least 20 weeks of age in utero are aborted at a rate of about 30 per day in the United States, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The CBO has also concluded that aborting babies at 20 weeks or later in pregnancy saves money for the government-run federal-state Medicaid system.

“Based on data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CBO estimates that, each year, about 11,000 abortions take place 20 weeks or more after fertilization,” said the CBO’s analysis of H.R. 1797, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

11,000 late-term abortions per year averages to about 212 per week. In a 40 hour work week, that's just over 5 unborn babies aborted every work hour in the United States!

Nonetheless, the CBO said “industry experts” described the number of 20-week-plus abortions that would be prohibited by the Pain Capable Child Protection Act as “relatively small.”

The CBO does not explain how it decided to assume that three quarters of women who otherwise would have aborted after 20 weeks would simply have an earlier abortion if late-term abortions were banned. However, CBO did explain why it believes late-term abortions save money for the welfare state.

“Because the costs of about 40 percent of all births are paid for by the Medicaid program, CBO estimates that federal spending for Medicaid will rise to the extent that enacting H.R. 1797 results in additional births and deliveries relative to current law,” says CBO.

In other words, according to CBO, to the degree that government runs and pays for the health-care system—as it does through Medicaid—aborting late-term babies is a cost-saving measure for government. Letting late-term babies live, according to this reasoning, is an increased cost for government.

The CBO did not estimate how much wealth and job-creating power U.S. society has lost and will lose in the future because 11,000 late-term unborn babies per year are killed by abortionists and not allowed to live out their lives.

Yet another example of CBO hackery. And although this Act has been passed in the House, it would need to be approved in the Democrat-majority Senate and signed by President Barack Obama to become law. There's no way the Democratic abortion sycophants would allow that to happen. It's just a bit ironic and hypocritical that these same rulers are always pushing their agenda 'for the children'. In Obama's case, a favored phrase is 'if we can save even one child'...but that's never the case when it actually comes down to saving even one child.

Related links: Even If It Saves Just One Life: Abortion Regulation NOW
“If We Can Save Just One Child”, A Sandy Hook & Moore Oklahoma Comparison

However, on the local front, where the current fight for the unborn resides, the numbers mounting in the Lone Star state are just as heartrending...

CNSNews: In Texas--where the state house is now considering legislation to prohibit abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy--abortionists terminate the lives of unborn babies who have reached at least the 21st week of gestation at a rate of more than one per day.

Each year, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes an "Abortion Surveillance" report, providing statistics on the abortions performed in 46 states, plus the District of Columbia and New York City. (California, Delaware, Maryland and New Hampshire do not provide the CDC with their abortion statistics.)

The latest "Abortion Surveillance" report was published in November 2012 and covers the abortions performed in 2009.

In Texas in 2009, according to the report, abortionists terminated a total of 74,962 unborn babies. 499 of those unborn babies were aborted at the 18th, 19th or 20th week of gestation, according to the CDC. 465 were aborted at the 21st week of gestation or later.

Given that there are 365 days in a year, Texas aborted unborn babies who had reached at least the 21st week of gestation at a rate of 1.27 per day.

No wonder Gov. Perry, Republican allies and conservatives across Texas are relentlessly persuing limitations. But regardless of how conservative Texas is, it's absolutely unacceptable that late term abortion beyond the 20-week mark is an everyday occurrence in the 21st century! There's nothing civil about it...this is shear barbarism.

And Texas needs to lead the way in ENDING it.

Related link: Texas House Debates Abortion Limits Before Vote
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