QUICK FACTS
-
Heart begins
to beat
around 22 days from conception
- There have been more than
40 million
abortions
since 1973.
- Women have cited 'social reasons’, not
mother's health or rape/incest as
their motivation in
approximately
93%
of all abortions.
- A June 1999 Wirthlin poll found
that 62%
of Americans support legal abortion in only
three or fewer circumstances: when the
pregnancy results from rape or incest or
when it threatens the life of the mother. |
