Thought-Provoking or Racist?

[Ben Kenobi]

An intelligent person might also note that in most of the country it is impossible to get an abortion. In more than 86% of US counties, no doctor will provide them for fear for their lives, families, and pracitices because of tha anti-abortion terrorist.

Che, aren't counties a measure of geographical area, rather than population density? All you are saying here is that areas of low population density are less likely to have abortion clinics, which makes sense because clinics are businesses and need to make money. The clinics will locate where their customers are.

Impossible to get an abortion?


anti-abortion terrorist?

Please, you mean prolife protesters. Most clinics relocate because of massive protests outside of their doors. Some, like James Kopp do count as terrorists, and should be punished for their crime, after a fair trial.
However the peaceful protesters who do not block the clinic doors are not violating the laws of the US.

Che, has Planned Parenthood repudiated Margaret Sanger for her statements against blacks?

I'll let the Americans defend their own constitution.

[chequita guevara]

Planned Paretnhood is only one organziation providing abortions for low income women. BTW, they also provide pre-natal care for low income women.

What you fail to realize is that at one time, doctors provided abortions in their own practices. But then anti-abortion terrorists (yes, terrorists) began targetting them with assassination, arson, stalking, etc. By the late 1980s, it was impossible to get an abortion in most of the US. Even today, you don't have to go to a clinic to get an abortion but can get one from a doctor who will provide the service.

While it's true that half the US lives in only ten percent of the area, it's also true that the other half lives in the other 90%. That later group are far more likely to be white, and being average Americans, aren't as able to take a couple days (because of various state laws mandating a 24 hour or longer waiting period) off of work to drive across the state once or twice to get an abortion.

[Jac de Molay]

Look at Uganda. Out of all the Sub-Saharan African countries, they are the only one to lower their rate of AIDS transmission, through abstinence education. Maybe freer distribution of birth control actually encourages risky behaviour.

The program you refer to also provided condoms and more thorough counseling program than in other countries.

[Ben Kenobi]

http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/phc-t4.html

According to the US census,

221,301,068 million people live in 20% of the US counties. This equates to 79% of the US population.
Where it stands, almost 80 percent of americans currently have a clinic within their county.

Che,
I don't sympathise with those who bomb clinics. If guilty they deserve the punishment meted. They actually hurt the peaceful protesters, the ones trying to protest the situation in the US as it stands.

That later group are far more likely to be white, and being average Americans, aren't as able to take a couple days (because of various state laws mandating a 24 hour or longer waiting period) off of work to drive across the state once or twice to get an abortion.

Which states have a 24 hour waiting period that has been upheld?

http://lists.everybody.org/archives/joanh-column/2002-December/000130.html

"In the late 1980s the government of Uganda began an ABC campaign to fight the epidemic of HIV AIDS: “Abstain, Be Faithful, or wear a Condom” in that order of importance and emphasis. HIV rates dropped 50 percent in eight years in Uganda compared to increases in the surrounding countries, according to a recent Harvard study."

“When the program started in the late 1980s, the number of pregnant women infected with HIV was 21.2 percent. By 2001, the number was 6.2 percent. The
Harvard study also reported Ugandan adults are not having as much risky sex: Of women 15 and older, those reporting many sexual partners dropped from 18.4 percent in 1989 to 2.5 percent in 2000. The emphasis on abstinence in Uganda’s
program is unique.

Jac, you are correct. However, Abstinence is promoted as the primary method of birth control , with condoms as a last resort. This differs from other countries that have huge AIDS transmissions and promote condoms
alone.