Out of respect for the March For Choice, in which one in every 300 Americans participated, here are some Not-so-Fun Facts:

The attacks of 9/11 cost 2,752 lives and roughly $16.2 billion in direct damages. In retailation, we have spent 692 American lives to "fight terror," and our monetary bill has long since moved into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Yet...

In 2001, among all female murder victims in the U.S., 31% were slain by their husbands or boyfriends (Uniform Crime Reports, 2001, FBI). Family violence costs the nation from $5 to $10 billion annually (American Medical Association). Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between 14 and 41 years of age. Thirty five percent of American women, roughly 5 million citizens of the United States, report having been beaten by a romantic partner.

And how much time and effort are we putting toward this problem? Well, there are three times as many animal shelters in America as there are battered women's shelters. The government's allocation for this little War On Domestic Terror were at their highest back in the days of the Violence Against Women Act, with $1.6 billion being allocated for a period of five years. Currently, less than a quarter billion a year in federal spending goes toward projects that are even remotely related to combating domestic violence.

Yeah, sometimes it feels just a little shitty to be a female American.