abortion

[kelley]

At 04:06 PM 9/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Lots of pro-Gore lefties are making the argument that a vote for Nader is 
>a vote to end abortion. Here's the history of U.S. abortions, according to 
>the CDC (the 1997 numbers are preliminary). The rate of abortions actually 
>declined more quickly during the Clinton years than during the Reaganbush 
>years. This is not to argue that a high abortion rate is good in itself, 
>and I'm sure there are lots of complications behind these numbers, but still...
>
>Doug

ummm, the changes are incredibly small??  also, the highest numbers fall in 
the years when the tail end of baby boom women (pre 1962 iirc) were in 
their late teens--> thirties.  so it may be an artefact of age demographics


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