Defining abortion
Gianna Jessen, because she survived a botched abortion on behalf of her 17-year-old mother, thinks she is exceptional and abortion should be illegal. Well, the National Library of Medicine has news for her and the rest of us.
“It is estimated that up to half of all fertilized eggs die and are lost (aborted) spontaneously, usually before the woman knows she is pregnant. Among those women who know they are pregnant, the miscarriage rate is about 15-20 percent. Most miscarriages occur during the first seven weeks of pregnancy (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002458/).”
So take heart, Gianna, we are all abortion survivors. Fully 50 percent of our fellow fertilized eggs got aborted.
So it’s no big deal.
– Ralph Nielsen
Moscow