"To say a child is unwanted says nothing about the child, but it says much about the person who does not want his or her child." -- Jean Staker Garten Many Americans assume a correlation exists between "unwanted pregnancies" and child abuse.  Behind their slogan "Every Child a Wanted Child,"  Planned Parenthood kills 100,000 children in their own U.S. clinics and then speaks of having "saved" unwanted children from parental abuse. The evidence tells a different story.  In her research article, "The Myth: Unplanned Pregnancies Lead to Child Abuse,"  Dr Wanda Franz wrote:  "In every major child-abuse center, the data collected on families who have been identified as abusers indicate that the vast majority 'wanted' their children before they were born.  The percentages of 'wantedness' ranged from 91 percent to 96 percent, depending on the study." That conclusion is supported by the research of Dr. Edward Lenoski of the USC School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (1980), who found that abused children came from planned pregnancies in over 90% of the more than 600 cases he studied first hand.  He further noted that, on average, abusing mothers put on maternity clothes at 114 days into their pregnancies, compared to 171 days nationally, and that abusing fathers named their sons after themselves 24% of the time, compared to only 4% nationally. But while no adverse correlation exists between unwanted children and child abuse, a correlation does exist between abuse and abortion.  Prominent researcher and psychiatry professor Dr. Phillip Ney has written:  "Our study indicates that child abuse is more frequent among mothers who have previously had an abortion.  The mother's guilt or high expectations may be reasons why there is this high correlation.  A more plausible cause is that because of guilt, there is antepartum depression that interferes with the mother's ability to bond." Emphasizing that acceptance to violence inside the womb has weakened parents' resistence to violence outside the womb, Dr. Ney has further noted:    Abortion decreases a parent's instinctual rstraint against occasional rage felt toward a child.    Permissive abortion diminishes restraint aggressing the defenseless.    Abortion increases hostility between generations.    Abortion has devalued life.    Abortion increases guilt and self-hatred, which the parent releases against the child.    Abortion increases hostile frustration between sexes, for which the child is a scapegoat. After legalizing abortion on demand in 1973, America saw a 500% increase in child abuse by 1982, from 167,000 to 929,000. Following legalization in New York City, child abuse rose over 300% during the next three years, while the city's population was declining by 150,000.  Similarly, Hyde Amendment testimony (1980) noted that with fewer and fewer infants born, America has more and more abuse of children.  Within the same month, two New York Times headlines read:   "Nation Found Near Point of No Unwanted Pregancies" and "Child Abuse Epidemic, HEW Says."  By 1986, abuse cases had risen to 2.1 million yearly, as reported by the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect.