Why abortion rate is up in Bush years

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2851283 This
story was run in the Houston Chronicle.

Oct. 17, 2004, 1:27AM

Why abortion rate is up in Bush years
By GLEN HAROLD STASSEN and GARY KRANE

I, Glen, am a Christian ethicist, and trained in statistical analysis. I am
consistently pro-life. My son David is one witness. For my family,
"pro-life" is personal. My wife caught rubella in the eighth week of her
pregnancy. We decided not to terminate, to love and raise our baby. David
is legally blind and severely handicapped; he also is a blessing to us and
to the world. Gary Krane is an investigative journalist.

We look at the fruits of political policies more than words. We analyzed
the data on abortion during the Bush presidency. There is no single source
for this information -- federal reports go only to the year 2000, and many
states do not report -- but we found enough data to identify trends. Our
findings are disturbing.

Abortion was decreasing. When President Bush took office, the nation's
abortion rates were at a 24-year low, after a 17.4 percent decline during
the 1990s. This was a steady decrease averaging 1.7 percent per year. (The
data come from Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life using the Guttmacher
Institute's studies.)

[Scairp]

1. Well DUH!!!!

When you push abstinence only, and have pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control, then yeah, abortions will increase. Even if people cannot get reliable BC, they are still going to have sex and take the risk of pregnancy. It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out. That's just one of the many, many reason why the morans in the WH need to GO.

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2. The abortion rate will be inversely proportional to the economy.

[Malva Zebrina]

3. To each his own

as long as those who love their handicapped children, do not want to force their opinion on when life begins, or the ethics of birthing a child that they cannot care for on others. I am also pro-life and pro-choice. I do not believe that pro-life equates to pro "potential" life.

I worked in a state hospital for the mentally challenged for a few years.

I cannot tell you how many abandoned, severely handicapped children were placed there for the state to care for. Hundreds. Many were blind, and without the ability to be ambulatory, unable to do anything else but lay on the floor, on a mat, and incontinent,and unable to communicate or even eat, in any way with anyone, for the rest of their lives.

There was an incident once, where a distraught mother who could not take it any longer, in desperation, wheeled one of these children up to the door of the hospital and left it there for staff to discover.

And shame, sometimes with the accompanying punishment of a forced pregnancy, has been brought back into the equation by the Pro life people. Shame on a woman to be interested in and enjoy sex.

The application of shame results in trying to cover up the results of that sexual activity and a surreptitious visit to an abortion clinic.

I read a couple of years ago, that more than 500 newborn babies were left at the doorsteps of firehouses and police stations in Texas, abandoned by their mothers and fathers. This occured within a period of six months. During that time, 50 newborn babies were dumped into dumpsters and died of suffocation.