The latest reported figures for abortions in the U.S. are up slightly, about 100,000 abortions per month, after several years of a downward trend. Dr. Randall K. O'Bannon with the National Right to Life Committee explains what is happening.
"After all of the work that the pro-life movement has done in the last couple of decades to bring the numbers down...the abortion industry [has] retrenched and they have aggressively gone about to shore up their business," he contends.
While traditional abortions are dangerous enough, O'Bannon points out abortion proponents have done a good job of promoting the abortion drug RU-486 as an alternative.
"They've been able to sell that to a lot of women who aren't aware of just how difficult and dangerous these chemical abortions are," he laments, "and that's made, I think, a huge difference."
According to news reports, 11 women have died after taking RU-486, and there have been many reports of dangerous side effects. Plus, Planned Parenthood is now waging war with pregnancy care centers that want to provide women with the truth about abortion and its after-effects.
"[Those are] people who will stand beside them through the whole process," says the pro-life spokesman. "[Many women] don't know about adoption in a way that that child can have a wonderful future -- and the child doesn't have to die."
He believes the new statistics should motivate the pro-life community to work harder to get the truth out about abortion and the alternatives.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
