Myths about abortion

MYTH: Abortion is only legal through the first trimester.
FACT: Over 77,000 abortions take place every year in the United States after the sixteenth week of pregnancy.
 
MYTH: No one knows when human life begins.
FACT: The California Medical Association referred to "the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception and is continuous whether intra- or extra-uterine until death." (See Quote.)

MYTH: Abortion is an unfortunate necessity and doesn’t happen often.
FACT: 1.6 million abortions take place each year in the United States. Nearly one in three pregnancies ends in abortion.

MYTH: We need abortion to reduce child abuse. Wanted children will not become abused children.
FACT: Abortion has done nothing to reduce child abuse. Child abuse increased 500% from 1973, the year abortion was legalized throughout the United States, to 1986.

Source: The summary of a student presentation on abortion rights in Philosophy 305 at the University of Kentucky.