Abortion math

Don Surber:

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So let’s review. 1. 40% of abortions (about 5,200) in Minnesota are related to a tightening economy.
2. The number of abortions is down 1.5% (about 200).
3. “The most common reason cited was that a woman did not want children at this time (10,190.)”

Convenience was cited twice as often as economics, and yet AP led with the economy.

And it buried the drop in abortions.

I also found that only 98 abortions were attributed to rape and incest.

It’s interesting that the main rationalization for abortion — rape and incest — accounted for less than 1% of the abortions in Minnesota in 2007.

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Surber does the job an editor should have done on this misleading AP story. It is worth reading in full.