Another abortion story the media aren’t reporting

Did you know that the number of abortionists in this country is dropping, rather dramatically?

Taking the life of one patient and likely hurting the other isn’t the idea most medical students have in mind when they’re thinking of a specialty or career after college.

Right there, I want to note the all too rare clarification that when a doctor has a pregnant patient, he has two patients before him. That’s just stating the obvious, which is a given in the medical community but somehow forgotten by the abortion culture influenced by activists who emphasize the woman. But now the pro-life forces that emphasize women’s health, protection and rights — like crisis pregnancy centers and lawmakers who back informed consent laws — are getting a great deal of attention and raising a new awareness of how bad abortion is for women. And it’s slowly getting stigmatized again.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood — the nations largest abortion business — estimates that there are about 1,800 abortion practitioners in the United States.

But the number has fallen about 37 percent from 1982 to 2000 for a variety of reasons.

Most abortion practitioners are older and retiring, many come from the bottom ranks of medical school and have had run ins with state health departments over botched abortions or health violations, others have converted to a pro-life position.

Looking at the equation from the pro-abortion side, groups like Medical Students for Choice say the decline is the result of stepped up protests against abortion practitioners at both the abortion centers as well as their homes.

That’s a very weak argument that fails to even look at the facts.

And abortion advocacy groups say the decline has been caused by more state regulations on abortion facilities to ensure that women’s health is better protected and to reduce the number of abortions.

And if they are true women’s advocates, what’s the problem with more state regulations to ensure that women’s health is better protected?

But two students at the very liberal University of Colorado in Boulder say they’re likely going to enter the field.

Fourth year medical student Megan Lederer, who is 30, told the Los Angeles Times that she’s being drawn into considering becoming an abortion practitioner because of horror stories groups like NARAL still perpetuate about women dying from illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade.

She may become an abortionist because of stories NARAL perpetuates?

Never mind that women still die from abortion despite its legality and that the abortion advocates at the time cooked the books.

Someone as smart as a medical student can just look at the facts of what 34 years of abortion on demand has rendered. They’re widely available, and the most compelling ones are from former abortionists and abortion activists and post-abortive women.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, NARAL’s co-founder before Roe was handed down in 1973, admits his group lied about the number of women who died from illegal abortions when testifying before the Supreme Court in 1972.

“We spoke of 5,000 – 10,000 deaths a year,” he has said previously. “I confess that I knew the figures were totally false [but] it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics?”

This, folks, is still going on. As long as deception works, abortion activists will continue to fight information and truth for all they’re worth. Literally.