Forgive me for asking but your propensity to use obviously tainted data from the propaganda arm of Planned Parenthood coupled with the fact that early LDS leaders were documented racists made me wonder.
First the last data I gave was from individual state departments - not the Guttmacher Institute. I don't think it matters where I get the data from, you are going to continue down this same baseless, accusational path.
I recommend you look at the real facts from pro life webpages regarding illegal abortion in the world instead of believing a diabolic organization.
Again, I have not used any data from the Guttmacher Institute nor Planned Parenthood.
But here is some data from the National Right to Life Committee:
http://www.nrlc.org/uploads/factsheets/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf
It shows the CDC data is plainly different from the Guttmacher Institute, and is not "tainted" by them as you seem to infer.
I also applaud you for standing up for children's rights. I also know as as an American it is difficult to accept we have more abortions than Latin American countries and promote abortion more than any other country but the facts are the facts, sorry.
Nope. On a per capita basis that is not true. Of course since the US has many more people than any of these other countries, the absolute number is greater for the US. But as a rate based upon a percentage of abortions per citizen, it is highly doubtful you are correct. All the statistics for the US agree the rates of abortion in the US have been in a steady decline for decades now.
If it is any condolence I had a hard time believing the truth as well.
What truth? you haven't provided a single shred of evidence to support your assertions. I simply don't like people making unfounded statements.
I do find it odd than anyone who knows of the racist past of the LDS could support them since it was part of church doctrine.
And this is simply one more. My church has never denied membership to any race nor practiced segregation. Nevertheless, the membership did basically all come from Protestant churches, and therefore came into the church with their own prejudices.
The church was anti-slavery, and Joseph Smith had received a revelation that there would be a civil war probably over the slave issue. When the church moved into pro-slavery territory, its small black membership seemed to stir up extra trouble and persecutions for the church on top of the many she already received. Brigham Young didn't really give a reason for disallowing black men to hold the priesthood, but he did say that they would be allowed to hold it in the future, and he denounced those who persecuted blacks. It seems to me a common Protestant theory about Cain, was implicit in all this. To be blunt this is one of the few original doubts I had about the church. Whatever the case may be, the Lord eventually made it clear that blacks could not only be members, but black men could hold the priesthood. I will not fault the church as a whole for prejudices the leadership may have once held when it is also possible the Lord had His reasons.
The Lord is not prejudiced, but sometimes He does make things wait until the proper time - the Gentiles had to wait. Is that because the Lord was prejudiced against them? Nevertheless, the Bible makes it clear that people from Egypt and Ethiopia will come to Him in the latter days.
The Book of Mormon says:
2 Nephi 26:33 For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for he doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and
he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.
Nonetheless women have never held the priesthood. Do Catholics believe that makes God sexist?
