The little college town of Iowa City boasts some big statistics.
Informed Choice of Iowa reports that of the 6,175 abortions performed in Iowa in 2005, almost 3,000 of those were in Iowa City. Kim Lehman, president of Iowa Right to Life points out that this puts Iowa City in the position of having the highest rate of abortions per capita in the US.
That comment led me to a short and admittedly unscientific study in per capita murder rates.
Last year, New Orleans was reported to lead the nation in per capita murders. (The population of New Orleans was 324,000. 179 murders were reported that same year.) They had 1 murder for every 1810 persons.
Iowa City's 2005 population was 62,887. Using just the estimate of abortions quoted above (3,000), excluding reported murders of born-persons, Iowa City had 1 murder for every 21 persons in 2005. (This compares to a national ratio of one abortion per every 245 born-persons.)
I'm not a statistician. This is an unscientific survey. There are likely errors. Nevertheless, the numbers are close to accurate...and staggering. In Iowa City, one person in the womb is killed for every twenty-one persons outside the womb.
If there were a city anywhere in the United States that saw one of every twenty-one born-persons murdered, the city would call for help. The story would be relentlessly covered by the news media. Martial law would be declared. Order would be restored.
When this rate reflects unborn persons slaughtered, they have a celebration.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
The City of Death - Iowa City, IA
My friend Eric Schumacher writes about a sad statistic concerning my former hometown of Iowa City, IA:
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Well, PP, NARAL and the Democrat Party DO. And when Christians and others who see Abortion as murder cry foul and call for help, we're seen as nuts, intolerant, restrictive of "rights," blah blah blah.
What will those numbers perhaps jump to in cities and towns across the US when health care providers are forbidden by law to exercise their consciences or even (*gasp*) actually adhere to the Hippcratic Oath?
I'd like to point out that Emma Goldman and all the people throwing this celebration of 35 years of providing convenient baby deaths to loose women in Iowa -- the all-women band and the people dancing to their music, are all BORN PERSONS. If they're going to celebrate anything in this era and climate of abortion on demand in America, they should celebrate the fact that they survived 9 months before their slaughter would be considered MURDER!
Our President supports this.
WOW those numbers are unbelievable and sick. You should send this to the Press Citizen and see what they think.
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