Roe Vs. Wade 34 Years Later
**** See update to the postÂ
It’s been 34 years since the decision came down. Texas Rainmaker has a wonderful post,  The Body Count, that lays out the statistics. I am going to change the number performed per year to reflect the impact that the ruling had on this country.
Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700
17,000,000 - Americans that die from Heart Disease each year
7,000,000 - Americans that die from Cancer each year
1,100,000 - American casualties in the 5 deadliest U.S. wars
40,000 - Americans die in car accidents annually
30,000 - Americans commit suicide each year
17,000 - Homicides committed each year
macranger, at Stop The ACLU gave these statistics:
Revolutionary War - 4,435 deaths.
Civil War (both sides) - 498,332 deaths.
World War I - 116,708 deaths.
World War II - 407,316 deaths.
Korea - 25,604 deaths.
Vietnam - 58,168 deaths.
Total killed due to abortion since 1973 - 50,000,000 (50 MILLION) deaths.
Estimate since the Iraq War began, just over 5,000,000 (5 Million) babies aborted.
Terror Attacks (within the US or against American abroad)
1920 Sept. 16, New York City: TNT bomb planted in unattended horse-drawn wagon exploded on Wall Street opposite House of Morgan, killing 35 people and injuring hundreds more. Bolshevist or anarchist terrorists believed responsible, but crime never solved.
1975 Jan. 24, New York City: bomb set off in historic Fraunces Tavern killed 4 and injured more than 50 people. Puerto Rican nationalist group (FALN) claimed responsibility, and police tied 13 other bombings to the group.
1979 Nov. 4, Tehran, Iran: Iranian radical students seized the U.S. embassy, taking 66 hostages. 14 were later released. The remaining 52 were freed after 444 days on the day of President Reagan’s inauguration.
1982–1991 Lebanon: Thirty US and other Western hostages kidnapped in Lebanon by Hezbollah. Some were killed, some died in captivity, and some were eventually released. Terry Anderson was held for 2,454 days.
1983 April 18, Beirut, Lebanon: U.S. embassy destroyed in suicide car-bomb attack; 63 dead, including 17 Americans. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Oct. 23, Beirut, Lebanon: Shiite suicide bombers exploded truck near U.S. military barracks at Beirut airport, killing 241 marines. Minutes later a second bomb killed 58 French paratroopers in their barracks in West Beirut.
Dec. 12, Kuwait City, Kuwait: Shiite truck bombers attacked the U.S. embassy and other targets, killing 5 and injuring 80.
1984 Sept. 20, east Beirut, Lebanon: truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. embassy annex, killing 24, including 2 U.S. military.
Dec. 3, Beirut, Lebanon: Kuwait Airways Flight 221, from Kuwait to Pakistan, hijacked and diverted to Tehran. 2 Americans killed.
1985 April 12, Madrid, Spain: Bombing at restaurant frequented by U.S. soldiers, killed 18 Spaniards and injured 82. June 14, Beirut, Lebanon: TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome hijacked to Beirut by Hezbollah terrorists and held for 17 days. A U.S. Navy diver executed.
Oct. 7, Mediterranean Sea: gunmen attack Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro. One U.S. tourist killed. Hijacking linked to Libya.
Dec. 18, Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria: airports in Rome and Vienna were bombed, killing 20 people, 5 of whom were Americans. Bombing linked to Libya.
1986 April 2, Athens, Greece:A bomb exploded aboard TWA flight 840 en route from Rome to Athens, killing 4 Americans and injuring 9.
April 5, West Berlin, Germany: Libyans bombed a disco frequented by U.S. servicemen, killing 2 and injuring hundreds.
1988 Dec. 21, Lockerbie, Scotland: N.Y.-bound Pan-Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight from a terrorist bomb and crashed into Scottish village, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on the ground. Passengers included 35 Syracuse University students and many U.S. military personnel. Libya formally admitted responsibility 15 years later (Aug. 2003) and offered $2.7 billion compensation to victims’ families.
1993 Feb. 26, New York City: bomb exploded in basement garage of World Trade Center, killing 6 and injuring at least 1,040 others. In 1995, militant Islamist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 9 others were convicted of conspiracy charges, and in 1998, Ramzi Yousef, believed to have been the mastermind, was convicted of the bombing. Al-Qaeda involvement is suspected.
1995 April 19, Oklahoma City: car bomb exploded outside federal office building, collapsing wall and floors. 168 people were killed, including 19 children and 1 person who died in rescue effort. Over 220 buildings sustained damage. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols later convicted in the antigovernment plot to avenge the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Tex., exactly 2 years earlier. (See Miscellaneous Disasters.)
Nov. 13, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: car bomb exploded at U.S. military headquarters, killing 5 U.S. military servicemen.
1996 June 25, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: truck bomb exploded outside Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds of others. 13 Saudis and a Lebanese, all alleged members of Islamic militant group Hezbollah, were indicted on charges relating to the attack in June 2001.
1998 Aug. 7, Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: truck bombs exploded almost simultaneously near 2 U.S. embassies, killing 224 (213 in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania) and injuring about 4,500. 4 men connected with al-Qaeda 2 of whom had received training at al-Qaeda camps inside Afghanistan, were convicted of the killings in May 2001 and later sentenced to life in prison. A federal grand jury had indicted 22 men in connection with the attacks, including Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, who remained at large.
2000 Oct. 12, Aden, Yemen: U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole heavily damaged when a small boat loaded with explosives blew up alongside it. 17 sailors killed. Linked to Osama bin Laden, or members of al-Qaeda terrorist network.2001 Sept. 11, New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.: hijackers crashed 2 commercial jets into twin towers of World Trade Center; 2 more hijacked jets were crashed into the Pentagon and a field in rural Pa. Total dead and missing numbered 2,9921: 2,749 in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon, 40 in Pa., and 19 hijackers. Islamic al-Qaeda terrorist group blamed. (See September 11, 2001: Timeline of Terrorism.)
2002 June 14, Karachi, Pakistan: bomb exploded outside American consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12. Linked to al-Qaeda.
2003 May 12, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: suicide bombers killed 34, including 8 Americans, at housing compounds for Westerners. Al-Qaeda suspected.
2004 May 29–31, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: terrorists attack the offices of a Saudi oil company in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, take foreign oil workers hostage in a nearby residential compound, leaving 22 people dead including one American.
June 11–19, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: terrorists kidnap and execute Paul Johnson Jr., an American, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2 other Americans and BBC cameraman killed by gun attacks.
Dec. 6, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: terrorists storm the U.S. consulate, killing 5 consulate employees. 4 terrorists were killed by Saudi security.
2005 Nov. 9, Amman, Jordan: Suicide bombers hit 3 American hotels, Radisson, Grand Hyatt, and Days Inn, in Amman, Jordan, killing 57. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.
2006 Sept. 13, Damascus, Syria: an attack by four gunman on the American embassy was foiled.
2007 Jan. 12, Athens, Greece: the U.S. embassy was fired on by an anti-tank missile causing damage but no injuries.
See also U.S.-Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations; Suspected al-Qaeda Terrorist Acts.
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January 22, 2007 - 08:39 PM on January 22nd, 2007
Why don’t you include the number of Americans who die from terrorists acts in your list?
Seriously; why not?
January 22, 2007 - 09:14 PM on January 22nd, 2007
I took someone else’s list..I will get stats and amend it..thanks for pointing it out!
January 22, 2007 - 09:31 PM on January 22nd, 2007
You are Welcome.
Hey, we’re all in America together. Can’t we try to work towards the improvement of America?
No Sugar Plantations, Abortionists, Oil Companies, Doctors, Trial Lawyers, Defense Contractors, Religions Hypocrites, Religious Honest people, Anyone, etc. is giving me money.
January 22, 2007 - 09:40 PM on January 22nd, 2007
January 22, 2007 - 10:37 PM on January 22nd, 2007
The same wackos who support abortion are the same ones with SAVE THE RAINFORESTS.SAVE THE WHALES,SAVE THE SPOTTED OWL,SAVE THE FLOWER LOVING FLY on the cars:eek:
January 22, 2007 - 11:29 PM on January 22nd, 2007
From pro-abortion to pro-life: My thoughts on the 34th anniversay of Roe v. Wade
First, I’d like to say that I hate that the anniversary of this decison, which gave women the ‘right’ to terminate their pregnancy(ies), is on my birthday.
Second, abortion is an issue I find hard to talk about - not because I’…
January 23, 2007 - 01:08 AM on January 23rd, 2007
Abortion supporters are fascists (Hitler was pro-abortion and Planned Parenthood was founded by a white supremacist) and Talibaners (anti-Christian).
January 23, 2007 - 03:53 AM on January 23rd, 2007
5- Snowy,
what do you have against rain forests, whales, and so on..?
January 23, 2007 - 03:57 AM on January 23rd, 2007
Peejz,
you shouldn’t have included the heart diseases in you statistics. Now the people who usually murder abortion doctors will start terrorizing the bosses of McDonalds, Burger King and Dunkin’ Donuts!!!
January 23, 2007 - 12:03 PM on January 23rd, 2007
The ‘impact’ of said ruling has been to re-empower women with options.
Options are good.
Women are in a unique situation here to which men have no business attempting to limit them in any manner shape or form.
Think of the unwanted children who have not been born into an uncaring and unloving world to a mother ill-equiped and indisposed to child rearing. Think of the money that’s been saved the taxpayer if nothing else in the form of ADC and welfare.
There are many (I among them) who believe a woman ought to have utter and complete dominion over her body and what transpires on it, in it, and to it.
I, though male, will always believe that a woman has the right (often the obligation) to terminate an unwanted pregnancy so to quote figures like you have here and compare them to undeveloped fetuses is ludicrous to me unless you’re speaking from some sort of a religious point of view - in which case I won’t even give you air time.
As you insist on attempting to repeal Roe versus Wade and the empowerment it gave women to the ultimate say over their own lives and futures (not to say that of unwanted children) you continually, IMO, empower the males among our ranks to dictate the moral code for both sexes.
Do not be fooled. You’re buying into a continuation of a very dangerous ethic by relegating the women who need the availability of an abortion of to the back alley butcher or the doctor who would be (should there be any success in moving progress backward) considered nothing more than a criminal.
It’s very easy people:
If you don’t want an abortion? DON’T HAVE ONE.
January 23, 2007 - 12:04 PM on January 23rd, 2007
Btw peejz?
It’s back to the old I’m unable to post thing again.
I’ve come in through a proxy server just to let you know.
January 23, 2007 - 12:26 PM on January 23rd, 2007
The bottom line is that abortion is the killing of a baby. Justify it any way you want but in the end that’s what it’s all about.
These stats really put things into perspective though don’t they?
January 23, 2007 - 12:41 PM on January 23rd, 2007
Eben,
“If you don’t want an abortion? DON’T HAVE ONE. ”
It is even easier than that, Eben. If you don’t have sex and don’t get pregnant, you won’t have a baby to get rid of.
January 23, 2007 - 01:01 PM on January 23rd, 2007
Empowerment? Sorry..I think it is very sad that any woman would consider the act of abortion as empowerment. I think it is disgusting and preventable. It always amazes me how the excuses are endless on this…Rubbers cost around $8.00 a box..use them or keep your legs closed…
IMO, a woman that feels empowered by this is not a woman with a lot of self respect. I’m secure enough with myself that I don’t need to be empowered by murder.
January 23, 2007 - 10:50 PM on January 23rd, 2007
I’m not going to comment on the issue of abortion, but I will comment on Roe V. Wade. It wasn’t a bad decision because it allowed abortion, it was a bad decision because it overstepped the boundaries of the Constitution and legislated from the bench.
The decision on the legality of abortion is the same as that of same sex marriage, it shouldn’t be decided by 9 possibly senile attornies in black robes. It should be decided by the legislative branches of the states. That is the purpose of a democracy isn’t it? To allow the majority to make the laws? In those states where the majority would vote in favor of abortion, there would be abortions. In those states where the majority were opposed to abortions, abortions would be illegal. In every country where they have had a vote wherein Abortion was legalized there have never been the problems we have with it here. Why? Because it was the decided by the will of the people, not 9 lawyers in black robes.
Throughout the history of this country, there have been those who pushed for social revolution and those who sought social evolution. Those who sought social revolution invariably had it come back biting them in the ass. Those who worked toward social evolution were infinitely more successful. Who had a greater effect in heightening awareness about the evils of slavery? John Brown who tried to start a slave revolt with his raid on the Harper’s Ferry armory? Or Harriet Beecher Stowe with her book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? Who made more progress in advancing the cause of civil rights in this country? Malcom X with his “By any means necessary” rhetoric? Or Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech and insistence on non violence? In both cases the former started movements which resulted in their own deaths and became little more than footnotes in history, while the latter changed the very thinking of those who initially opposed them and became icons for their positions for all time. While John Brown and Malcolm X both sought revolution, Harriet Beecher Stowe and MLK sought evolution.
Any attempt to legislate from the bench is going to face stiff recurring opposition because it is an attempt at social revolution rather than an attempt at social evolution. Resistance to social change is like flying a kite. Does the kite rise higher when it is opposing the wind or when it is going with it. The harder you press someone to go against their current position, the more that they resist. The more you work to subtly convince them of the worth of your position, the less resistance you will ultimately face.
January 24, 2007 - 09:51 AM on January 24th, 2007
SAVE THE WHALES SINK GREENPEACE:razz: