Reply #152: It isn't inconvenient to me.

[GirlinContempt]

It is what it is. And comparing it to the world population makes a huge difference. I would be shocked if, say, 40 million abortions were happening in the USA per year. That would be an absurd number, I would wonder what the hell is going on that so many abortions are happening. Numbers depend on other things to give them relevance. It isn't shunting anything aside, it's pointing out that with that many people in the world, that many abortions is not some huge out of control number. Especially when we consider the state of most of the worlds population.

My points aren't beside the point. Everything I've said to you has a great deal to do with abortion. Poverty, hunger, disease, lack of education, etc etc etc all contribute to the number of abortions. You don't think that a woman who lives on $2/day is more likely, if she can, to have an abortion? You don't think that hunger and poverty contribute? You don't think that a woman with AIDS might be more likely? You don't think that making the world a safe healthy place would reduce the number of abortions?

I can't help that the number 40,000,000 gives you something to crow about, as if it is independent of anything else, as if the number itself is somehow meaningful without looking at other things around it. I really can't. And I can't help that you think it is 'insane' to compare statistics. What would be a reasonable number of abortions, in your mind? What number would be acceptable to you, even ignoring any other relevant information.

I don't know if you do much reading, I doubt it, but percentages are used CONSTANTLY when providing information to people, in studies a number may seem high, but when COMPARED TO OTHER NUMBERS, that number becomes statistically insignificant because it is such a small group of the whole. I don't call this number THAT, but it is common practice to compare the subset to the whole.