The extreme violence,
high number of abortions, and criminality associated with drug cartels prompted the church to carry out this unique kind of exorcism.
Notably, the research found
the highest numbers of abortions in Latin America, where one in every three pregnancies are aborted.
State lawmakers passed the second -
highest number of abortion restrictions ever this past year, with 19 states enacting 43 measures in 2012 that limited access to abortion services, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Not exact matches
Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself
of a commitment to
abortion rights: the increasing
numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly
high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift
of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity
of ecumenical teaching on the dignity
of the human person; and the providence
of God.
In Poland,
abortion is mostly limited to cases
of incest, rape or when the mother's life is medically threatened, but the
number of illegal
abortions is thought to be very
high.
For the sake
of liberals who are (understandably) queasy about defending
abortion on its merits, Democratic politicians like to pretend that Planned Parenthood offers mammograms (it doesn't), that it is a common source
of pre-natal care (it's not), and that
abortion represents only 3 percent
of its services (the real
number is unclear, but far
higher — though again, it doesn't help our cause to inflate it to 94 percent).
I personally think the second
number is slightly
higher than the first — people who would be violent anyway, use religion as their excuse — God told them to kill gays, or
abortion doctors, or people
of another religion, or atheists or whatever.
Yet the
number of unplanned pregnancies is still phenominally
high as well as the
number of abortions.
We have rampant corruption and abuse in our Gurdewara, we have the largest
number of female fotiece
abortion in India and probably in the rest
of the world, we have Gurdewara's based on caste, we have the
highest rate alcoholism in England (
highest of liver damage), being born and raised in the UK, the girls are now drinking more then the guys.
Meanwhile, China reaches deep into the family lives
of its citizens: Its «family planning» policies, including forced
abortions, have brought about the world's
highest number of deaths
of unborn children.
The Euro Peristat report says that later term
abortions,
of which there are a
high number, are counted in the fetal mortality rates in France.