ACCORDING to the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform's website, there approximately 42 million abortions a year worldwide, 115,000 per day world wide and according to a 2008 article by Randall K. O'Bannon via the National Right to Life News, there have been approximately 50 million abortions in the United States since 1973; yet only 1% of these occur because of rape, and 6% occur because of health problems relating to the mother or child. However, 93% of abortions occur because of social reasons ( meaning that having a child would be inconvenient ). Before I continue on I must state that “health reasons” can include anything as simple as the mother not feeling well or having a headache. And as far as the pregnancy causing medical problems for the child, if we are concerned for the child's medical well being then how in the world does killing it express this concern? Some people believe we need abortion as a means of population control. However, according to www.blackgenocide.org If the entire population of the world were put into the land area of Texas, each person would have an area equal to the floor space of a typical U.S. home and the population density of Texas would be about the same as Paris, France. Most abortion clinics are built in heavily minority populated areas, and the number one killer of African Americans is abortion ( more black citizens are killed by abortion than AIDS, violent crime, accidents, cancer, and heart disease combined ). Two pro-life activists ( Lila Rose and James O'Keefe ) recently caused an uproar when they set out to prove the racist nature of the abortion industry. They recorded several calls to Planned Parenthood offices around the country asking if they could donate money to abort black babies. Planned parenthood accepted this money resulting in black pastors around the country calling for an end to government funding for planned parenthood. This was one of three times that they made headlines; as other incidents included when Lila set out to prove that some clinics were not reporting statutory rape. She went in to a California clinic and told a worker that she was 15 and pregnant by her 23 year old boyfriend (which is statutory rape in the state if the girl is under 16, and must be reported). The employee told her to lie and write down that she was 16 in order to have the abortion and prevent anyone from being required to report it. The other incident was when Lila posed as a 14 year old girl impregnated by her 31 year old boyfriend. These events were all captured on video and audio tape. In the years that I have been involved with the work I do, I have met and helped only a very small number of girls who found themselves in the extreme cases in which for example a pregnancy was a result of being raped by a family member ( maybe once or twice ). Yet the number of these cases were insignificant in comparison to the number of girls I have met who have had multiple abortions, and have used it as birth control to the point where some even decided beforehand that if they found themselves pregnant they would terminate it. Many girls are being rushed through the abortion process without being given any information on alternatives such as adoption. And whether we want to acknowledge it or not, there are many women who have kept their babies even after the horror of rape, and now speak out against abortion. On the other side of the coin, an old friend of mine who used to council rape victims told me of many girls who had abortions not necessarily because they wanted to, but because everyone around them was telling them they should do it. I remember one episode he told me about when he witnessed a guy squeezing his girlfriend's arm and telling her that she had to get an abortion while walking her in to the clinic as she pleaded with him saying that she didn't want to. Our relaxed attitude towards babies and pregnancy is an extension of our casual attitude towards sex, relationships, and the decisions we make. I am against abortion and I'm not afraid to say it, and this in no way means that I am a person who is against the personal liberties of women. I have dedicated my life and this organization to helping young girls, and we as a civilization have a tendency to unfairly define a person's entire views towards woman by their views on abortion. Every feminist reading this should be outraged at what is happening with abortion, and there is nothing liberating about the fact that we have created an environment where a girl's only option is abortion. There is debate about whether abortion should be covered by health care insurance. When dealing with abortion we talk so much about “choice”, then shouldn't I have the choice to not have my tax dollars pay for the procedure?