U.N. elections chief Carina Perelli estimates between 54 and 58 percent of Iraqi voters showed up on Saturday to vote on their proposed constitution despite legitimate fears of militant reprisal.
Does that turnout seem low?
Compare registered voter turn-out in the U.S. during the last several Presidential Election years. (FEC, Infoplease)
2004 - 55.3%
2000 - 51.3%
1996 - 49.1%
1992 - 55.1%
1988 - 50.1%
1984 - 53.1%
1980 - 52.6%
1976 - 53.6%
1972 - 55.2%
... and we have to go all the way back to 1968 to find a year in which over 60% of registered voters turned-out. 60.8% turned out that year.
And - in none of those years was our turn-out affected by legitimate fear of militant reprisal.
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Soldier death-count fans will tell you that 1,976 U.S. troops have died in getting Iraq to this point. (This averages to approximately 2.1 U.S. troop deaths per day in Iraq). (http://icasualties.org/oif/)
Now, compare that to the 29,247,142 legal abortions that were performed in the United States between 1970-1995. (That's about 1.2 Million abortions per year, or over 3,200 abortions per day). 7% of reasons given for those abortions are attributed to "health problems of the mother or baby", or "pregnancy caused by incest or rape."
(Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 47 No. SS-2), (http://www.guttmacher.org/presentations/abort_slides.pdf)
2 U.S. Soldiers per day
vs
3,200 U.S. Babies per day
26 Million Iraqi's are facing Freedom and some would rather focus on those two deaths per day.
29 Million Babies (plus!) will never know Freedom and some would rather focus on ... those same two deaths per day.
Kumbayah...
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