{"id":461,"date":"2004-10-14T15:30:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/461"},"modified":"2004-10-14T15:30:48","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T22:30:48","slug":"more-on-abortion-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/461","title":{"rendered":"More on Abortion Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An update on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klishis.com\/random\/athenaeum\/000490.html\">politics and pregnancy<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jeanne at <a href=\"http:\/\/bodyandsoul.typepad.com\/blog\/\">Body and Soul<\/a> has also been <a href=\"http:\/\/bodyandsoul.typepad.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/help.html\">writing about abortion trends in the US, and according to her<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The short answer seems to be that national numbers for 2000-2004 won&#8217;t be available for awhile, but some states have posted statistics and they suggest that the trend has reversed itself: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/cjextra\/editorials\/2004\/10\/11\/oped-stassen1011-5709.html\">The abortion rate has increased during George Bush&#8217;s presidency in most of the states for which numbers are available<\/a>. The author of the linked article, a Christian ethicist, and father of a severely handicapped child, suggests that the reasons for the increase are probably the economy and lack of access to health care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the article she cites, I&#8217;d like to quote the following paragraph.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Economic policy and abortion are not separate issues; they form one moral imperative. Rhetoric is hollow, mere tinkling brass, without health care, health insurance, jobs, childcare, and a living wage. Pro-life in deed, not merely in word, means we need a president who will do something about jobs and insurance and support for prospective mothers.<br \/>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/cjextra\/editorials\/2004\/10\/11\/oped-stassen1011-5709.html\">Glen Harold Stassen, The Courier-Journal<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update on politics and pregnancy&#8230; Jeanne at Body and Soul has also been writing about abortion trends in the US, and according to her: The short answer seems to be that national numbers for 2000-2004 won&#8217;t be available for awhile, but some states have posted statistics and they suggest that the trend has reversed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-7r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}