Anonymous asked: Where on earth did you get your .25% number? In 2013, there were 664,435 abortions reported to the CDC. No matter how you slice it, .25% doesn't make any sense. If anything, the number is a lot closer to 20% than .25%. Maybe the period was a typo?
There are around 320 million Americans, there were .67 million abortions in the specified year, that works out to .209% annually. In my initial number, intended to get an order of magnitude, I went, as I explicitly said, with .75 million abortions, and implicitly used 300 million people, yielding .25% of the population annually. That’s where I got the number. Did you perhaps think I was talking about fraction of women affected over a lifetime?
(Disclaimer: I have changed my mind on the overall argument.)