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In this blog I am going to list various facts and statistics about abortion. The first set are from a website called http://www.guttmacher.org and this link will take you to the Induced Abortions page of the website. These facts were posed in January 2008, which would mean that is has some of the most recent evidence and facts. This Page was created by the Guttmacher institute and it has taken information and have cited them at the bottom of their page, which is what the numbers at the end of the sentences refer to.

This cites carries a lot of information regarding abortion, but the information I am looking for today has to do with the law and policies of abortion. Lucky me I happened to find a section within the page that I have hyperlinked. This is taken straight from the page so that you do not have to wait for that page to load up, unless u wants to take a look at more of the information they provide. Below is a brief history of the regulations for Stem-cell research.

“LAW AND POLICY

• In the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court ruled that women, in consultation with their physician, have a constitutionally protected right to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy—that is, before viability—free from government interference.

• In 1992, the Court reaffirmed the right to abortion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. However, the ruling significantly weakened the legal protections previously afforded women and physicians by giving states the right to enact restrictions that do not create an “undue burden” for women seeking abortion.

• Thirty-five states currently enforce parental consent or notification laws for minors seeking an abortion. The Supreme Court ruled that minors must have an alternative to parental involvement, such as the ability to seek a court order authorizing the procedure.[18]

• Even without specific parental involvement laws, six in 10 minors who have an abortion report that at least one parent knew about it.[19]

• Congress has barred the use of federal Medicaid funds to pay for abortions, except when the woman’s life would be endangered by a full-term pregnancy or in cases of rape or incest.

• Seventeen states use public funds to pay for abortions for some poor women, but only four do so voluntarily; the rest do so under a court order.[20] About 13% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds[21] (virtually all from state governments).[22]

• Family planning clinics funded under Title X of the federal Public Health Service Act have helped women prevent 20 million unintended pregnancies during the last 20 years. An estimated nine million of these pregnancies would have ended in abortion.[23] “

Upon reading this I am able to deduct that the Government does fund abortion. The only ways that the government funds it is under certain circumstances. Some of these situations were listed above such as Incest, Rape, to help poor people whom cannot afford the procedure. Also note that as the funding goes for the poor only seventeen States do such, and only four voluntarily do so.