Friday, August 16, 2013

What if we had the bodies of 50,000,000 babies...in a museum somewhere?

"What if we had the bodies of 50,000,000 babies piled on top of each other in a museum somewhere?"

Just doing the math:  Assuming current rates, about 78.9% of those 50,000,000 were 10 weeks or less, mean they were about an inch long or less.  That is 39,450,000 grape sized embryos or about the equivalent to 90,000 gallon swimming pool. 9.1%, 4, 550,000, were  11-12 weeks and about 2 inches which adds about another 21,000 gallons.  6.6% were 13-15 weeks and up to 4 inches long which is about another 30,000 gallons. 3.8%, 1,900,000, were at the most 10 inches or about 43,000 gallons.  Even being generous, the 1.5%, 750,000 that were over 20 weeks were generously 20 inches or at the most about 34,000 gallons.   Total about 220,000 gallons.

I don't know if it would make the point that she wants it to make.  On the one hand, seeing all those aborted at one time could make a point.  On the other hand, you could physically put all those aborted into one location 1/3 the size of an Olympic swimming pool.  More to her point about late term abortion, 10 weeks and less abortion amount for 78.9% of abortions, but only 41% of the contents of our hypothetical abortion exhibit. One could use this as an argument to prevent later term abortions, but the vast majority of mothers would not abort an 11 week old fetus. 

Sources - http://www.lifesitenews.com/twenty-weeks-pregnant-with-twins-but-last-week-she-had-an-abortion.html
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
http://www.traditionaloven.com/culinary-arts/volume/convert-sphere-1-in-d-to-galon-gal-us.html
http://www.babycenter.com/slideshow-baby-size?slideNumber=7

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