Quick--I have a single issue voter here

[Arkana]

and I think I can get her. She's an abortionite, and I need the stat that says abortions have risen under Bush. Please? I'd be much obliged.

[Bluebear]

1. voila

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- An independent study by an ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary who is also trained in statistical analysis finds that, contrary to popular assumption, abortion has risen in the U.S. during George W. Bush's presidency and that the increase is linked to economic policy.

"Under President Bush, the decade-long trend of declining abortion rates appears to have reversed," said Glen Stassen, Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, a leading evangelical divinity school. Citing connections to rising unemployment and soaring healthcare costs, Stassen noted that "economic policy and abortion are not separate issues. They form one moral imperative."

Using data from the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, the Guttmacher Institute, and reporting by individual states, Stassen found that U.S. abortion rates declined 17.4% in the 1990s to a 24-year low when Bush took office. Many expected that downward trend to continue under the conservative president, but Stassen found the opposite: 52,000 more abortions occurred in 2002 than would have been expected under the pre-2000 conditions, and abortion has risen significantly in those states reporting multi-year abortion statistics.

Responding to Stassen's study, Sojourners magazine editor Jim Wallis stated, "We have seen once again in this campaign the issue of abortion used as a partisan wedge rather than having a serious discussion on how to act to reduce the number of abortions."

http://sev.prnewswire.com/magazines/20041013/DCW06813102004-1.html

[LostInAnomie]

2. Abortions always rise in times of financial hardship...

... and under Bush the hardship falls most disproportionately on the poor.

[justgamma]

3. Not to mention the fact

that they don't want the young people to know about birth control.
That couldn't help the stats either.

[ZombieNixon]

4. Try this

Bush's "Christian values" say to teach "abstinence only" in Sex-Ed, but studies show that "abstinence-only" program do not reduce occurences of pre-marital sex. Since "abstinence-only" prgrams do not teach condom use or contraceptives, the incidinces of unwanted pregnancies go up, and thus so do the number of abortions.

[FrankenforMN]

5. http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=041013#5

Abortion rates have risen due to Bush's economic policies. They were on a steady decline during the Clinton years. Vote pro-life, Vote John Kerry.