{"id":5442,"date":"2011-08-13T07:45:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T11:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2013-12-28T11:29:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T16:29:37","slug":"less-than-1-of-minnesota-abortions-due-to-rape-or-incest-state-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/less-than-1-of-minnesota-abortions-due-to-rape-or-incest-state-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Less than 1% of Minnesota abortions due to rape or incest state report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/life-balloons.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4811\" style=\"margin: 10px 15px 10px 5px;\" title=\"life-balloons\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/life-balloons-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>This new survey data <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/divs\/chs\/abrpt\/2010abrpt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">released by the Minnesota Department of Health<\/a> shows that 73 out of 11,500 abortions performed in Minnesota last year were due to rape or incest. This come out to 0.63% or just over sixth-tenth of 1% of Minnesota termination procedures.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Abortion in the cases of rape and incest is often a contentious topic and while a legitimate part of the abortion\/right-to-life discussion it is often used as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_herring\" target=\"_blank\">red-herring<\/a> by &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; activists divert from addressing the 99%+ of abortions that are not due to rape or incest. This new data is useful in combating abortion advocates to who want to talk about the &#8220;hard cases&#8221; only while avoiding the fact that over 99% of children who are aborted were created by the consent of both their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Rape, like abortion, is an evil and violating attack on human dignity that steals an individual&#8217;s right to not have their body harmed by others. It is vital that we as a society treat the lives around us with respect whether they be born or unborn human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new survey data released by the Minnesota Department of Health shows that 73 out of 11,500 abortions performed in Minnesota last year were due to rape or incest. 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