FACT:  Annual abortions, declining since the 1970's, increased since the Bush Presidency.
 Given the trends of the 1990s, 52000 more abortions occurred in the United States in 2002 than would have been expected, according to a Christian doctor.
(read more below)
(Isn't this more "liberal social engineering", cynically designed for right-wing domination?)
If I labeled a turd "cologne" and labeled cologne "feces" would Americans flush the cologne and wipe feces on their face.
Do labels really tell the whole story?

Have Americans become so attuned to a slave-drone mentality that rather than stick up for themselves and
state their opinions boldly, they demand that the "big, friendly government" outlaw everything they oppose?
Attacks on the Constitution, corrupting our legal guarantees to God-given Liberty, more than any other moral issue, is rampant anti-Americanism, an immoral descent into serfdom.

c)  PBA occurs in less than 1% of abortions, usually medical emergencies.  This means that it is usually a medical necessity.  Late Term PBA's of 'choice' are less than 0.5% of total abortions. 

The level of hysterical controversy over a relatively rare situation is vastly out of proportion to reality.  What percentage of women and girls who decide to not carry to term, instead carry to near-term and then abort at the last minute?  Duh!

The anti-abortion platform is like structuring society for 295 million Americans, based on the existence of one Jeffrey Dahmer.  Then the control freaks argue that anyone who opposes the harshest intrusions into the lives of every single American "supports Jeffrey Dahmer".   (Jeff Dahmer was the twisted, mentally ill man who killed young men, chopped them up, and ate them.)

 

d)  Therefore, the argument about PBA cannot truly be restricted to PBA, but a step towards outlawing ALL abortion.  FINE.  Everyone knows this is the agenda. 
BUT WILL OUTLAWING ABORTIONS END or CURB ABORTIONS??  Or just make them unsafe and deadly? 

A Conservative friend who attended a top right-wing Republican conservative college on special private grants from right-wing Foundations, testified to me that many many rich white Republican college girls were going away to college, getting pregnant at 18, and having abortions. 

Phony opportunistic Conservatives (as opposed to genuine Conservatives) obviously DO NOT CARE if Abortion(or drug use) actually INCREASES, so long as they can perceive themselves as being "anti-permissive", so long as they can punish more people, regardless of the actual results.  Amongst Conservative voters, this can arguably be attributed to ignorance or misinformation, and force-fed ideology.  Amongst Conservative politicians, who have access to public policy numbers and statistics, this can only be attributed to intentional ignorance and pandering, intentionally wrong priorities. 

f)  Kerry failed to clearly debate the Classic Conservative-Libertarian position that allowing the Federal Govt. intercede in abortion violates a private contract between a patient and her doctor, in a vain attempt to eradicate a medical procedure that is thousands of years old.  Ancient human societies even practiced infanticide ... for survival and common sense when food supplies ran too low.

John Kerry failed to state one simple fact told to me by two conservative Christian Democrat women who personally oppose abortion: 
Annual abortions, declining since the 1970's, increased since the Bush Presidency. 
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=041013#5
WHY?  Certainly a number of variations and different reasons.  Everyone is different. 
But the main reason is poverty serves up more abortions. 
Especially intentional policies which create more mass poverty.

It's not exactly a mystery:

• When the govt acts with extreme selfishness, rewarding a rich minority of 6000 families, at the expense of the poor majority of 80% of Americans, it displays an attitude that people mirror, as they also become MORE selfish and ruthless.
• In times of grinding poverty and unemployment, there is LESS of a sense of Personal Security and LESS generosity of Love.
• There is LESS room for being Loving, and MORE tendency to exhibit selfish behavior.
  
• There is MORE cynicism and MORE tendency to "just not give a fuck" about what happens to others in times of harshness.  There is LESS caring.  There is more frustration, more hopelessness, when people's backs are up against the wall, leading to more dysfunctional behaviors, including "illicit" sex. 
  
• This is just how people react in times of desperation ... unless they are organized to bond together for greater economic security ... and we all know how the anti-Communists of the FBI, CIA, and COINTELPRO felt about that as they intervened, infiltrated, and undermined such programs in the past.
• 
  
• Therefore ....
• When the a population is impoverished, there is LESS incentive for pregnant women to carry to term.
• When the a population is impoverished, there is LESS willingness for men to act as responsible fathers.
  
• When the a population is impoverished, there is LESS overall willingness to "start a family".
• When health care is scarce, more women do not want to be pregnant or raise children.  Responsible women don't want to raise children in poverty and be dependent on State funding.
• Yet, people do not stop having sex until the economy magically improves.
• When a population is intentionally harmed economically, there is LESS tendency to purchase materials for safer sex. 
  
• They say the War on Poverty didn't work (but it did until it was strangled).
• The War Against the Poor seems to be very effective!!
  
• People make less humane, ethical, and responsible choices , in an economic stranglehold, because -- obviously  -- practical options are more limited.
  

How could it be otherwise? 

Obviously, some women will never have an abortion regardless of poverty, but this is a personal decision, not a government choice.
Some will choose abortions despite having means to motherhood, if it's otherwise inconvenient.  Even if this means severe risk.
I'm referring to large trends, not individual unique cases. 
But even for good, moral people, with the best intentions, intentional impoverishment and unemployment sets up an unnecessary battle between moral and practical choices. 

Maybe you personally would NEVER choose abortion, but isn't there still the fear of "how am I going to support and care for this child?" 
One question people ask, even Christians, is how ethical it is to subject a child to abject poverty?
This is not a question to justify abortion, it's a question about how to best structure incentives and best serve society, if incentives are called for.

It's an old saying that it's easier to be against stealing when you are well-fed and have plenty of means, than when you or your family is hungry. 

On the contrary, more Billionaires steal more money than your neighborhood petty thief, but they can often afford the expense of making their brand of thievery legal.
The truth is, more powerful rich elites kill more than powerless people.