The New York-based Guttmacher Institute has just released new statistics on worldwide abortion rates. (Associated Press, 15 October 2009)

They say over 40 million babies are aborted per year — about half being done in unsafe circumstances (either self-induced or by non-expert practitioners using unsterile equipment)

And that 70,000 women die each year as a result of such procedures.

Their solution to the problem? They want abortion made legal everywhere.

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What groups like the Guttmacher Institute never discuss is what abortion is.

The death rate among the babies of aborted women is 100 percent – 40 million dead babies a year.

Opponents of abortion want the efforts of mankind directed to making abortion unnecessary by supporting women with unplanned pregnancies as they continue their pregnancy.

They want women to know what is going on inside them — e.g. that, from conception, there is a real live, unique, unrepeatable, human being in there — not just a blob of tissue or an extension of mum’s body.

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A report by LifeSiteNews confirms just how human the unborn baby is – using the famous photography of Lennart Nilsson.

Pro-abortionists don’t like Nilsson’s photos;  interesting that it’s pro-lifers who call attention to advances in foetal development research — not pro-abortionists, who prefer to deny the humanity of the unborn.

Here is a video which shows in real time what un-aborted unborn babies are like: