[Vision2020] The one argument I can make in favor of being 'pro-life'

[Tom Hansen]

And those older retirees who will watch social security become a thing of the past as grandma hits the streets with her voucher . . . desperately searching for a health insurance provider . . . after having been diagnosed with cancer.

How's that for a GOP fan base?

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
 

On Aug 28, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Sue,
>  
> Usually younger people are more liberal, Democrat, and open to different kinds of people. The demographics of the Republican Party, which has an anti-choice platform, has a population much that is generally older then the general population.
>  
> Donovan J. Arnold
> 
> From: Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com>
> To: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> 
> Cc: Scott Dredge <scooterd408 at hotmail.com>; viz <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The one argument I can make in favor of being 'pro-life'
> 
> There are ample data for the  association of down syndrome births in  women in later childbearing years, but where did you get the idea that the older the woman the more likely she is anti-choice?  I suppose those data would be fairly easy to find but I have never seen them. 
> Sue H
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 28, 2012, at 4:11 AM, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like genocide of people with Down's Syndrome. How sad. I use to help a young woman with Down's live independently. She was a sweet kind angel with not a evil cell in her. How people can destroy such angels from heaven is beyond me. I worry they abort babies they think will be gay, or because of their race, or gender.
>>  
>> As to your theory, Scott. I think that a pro-life woman is more like to have a baby with Down's because a pro-choice woman would be far more likely to abort it. Older women are also statistically more likely to have a baby with Down's and older women are statistically more likely to be pro-life as well.
>>  
>> Donovan J. Arnold
>> 
>> From: Scott Dredge <scooterd408 at hotmail.com>
>> To: viz <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
>> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 10:25 PM
>> Subject: [Vision2020] The one argument I can make in favor of being 'pro-life'
>> 
>> I loved the stats Dale posted on his site.  For instance, he had polling data that showed with some kooky accounting that 'The majority of Americans are pro-life'.  Shortly thereafter, he had a post titled 'Search and Destroy' which showed that 92% of Down's Syndrome pregnancies are aborted.  So let's say that both of these statistics are roughly accurate, but for crunching numbers more quickly let's say:
>> 50% of American women are pro-life and the other 50% are pro-choice
>> 90% of Down's Syndrome pregnancies are aborted (assume all these abortions are by self described 'pro-choice' women)
>> 10% of Down's Syndrome pregnancies are carried to term (assume all these births are by hard core pro-life women who are also NOT pro-choice for other women)
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>> Clearly these numbers show that that by being 'pro-life', a woman SIGNIFICANTLY reduces her risk of having a Down's Syndrome pregnancy.  I welcome any / all comments to blow holes in my theory.
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>> -Scott
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