Monday, June 23, 2008

Public Funding Increases Abortion

I've heard abortion supporters say over and over again that taxpayer funding of abortion doesn't increase abortion.  Baloney.  Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean made the same claim recently to the press.



Here's John McCormack's account of it in a short excerpt from his Weekly Standard Article, "Howard Dean's Abortion Contortions, The DNC chairman gets his facts wrong." 06/12/2008



YESTERDAY MORNING AT the Christian Science Monitor breakfast meeting, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was asked whether the Democratic platform on abortion should be amended. That will be up to Barack Obama and his delegates, Dean said, adding that the Democratic party believes "individuals have a right to make up their own minds in personal matters ... but this party also believes that we ought to significantly reduce the number of abortions in this country."



Given the latter, I asked how he could square Barack Obama's and the Democratic party's support for public funding for abortion--which studies show significantly increases the abortion rate.



Dean responded: "Total nonsense. It's total nonsense that public funding" increases the abortion rate.



Well, according to the Guttmacher Institute, that's not total nonsense.

A 1994-1995 AGI survey of abortion patients found that in states where Medicaid pays for abortions, women covered by Medicaid have an abortion rate 3.9 times that of women who are not covered, while in states that do not permit Medicaid funding for abortions, Medicaid recipients are only 1.6 times as likely as nonrecipients to have abortions.

A more recent study by Dr. Michael New of the University of Alabama found: "State laws restricting the use of Medicaid funds in paying for abortions reduced the abortion rate by 29.66" abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age.



After I pointed out the Guttmacher research on taxpayer funding and the abortion rate, Dean said: "If the Guttmacher Institute has said it would, I'm not going to argue with the Guttmacher Institute, but I can tell you as the governor of one of the four states which provides public funding, I find that hard to believe because our rate is not higher than the rate of corresponding states nearby."



Wrong again. Howard Dean became Vermont's governor in 1991. In 1992, Vermont's abortion rate was 67 percent higher than New Hampshire's, in 1994 it was 55 percent higher, and in 1996 it was 100 percent higher.



Click here to read the rest of McCormack's article.



Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics in Denton, TX has noted for years that abortion is what he calls  a marginal decision. That is, if you make access to abortion a little more difficult, like raising prices, the number of abortions go down.  It doesn't take much to keep many of them from having an abortion.  Women are not willing to crawl over broken glass to have one.  This is explains why taxpayer funding would increase abortion.  Like any subsidized activity or commodity, subsidizing brings more of it.



British Teenager Becomes 14th Woman to Die From Dangerous Abortion Drug

From LifeNews.com



London, England (LifeNews.com) -- A new report indicates a teenager died just one week after having a legal abortion -- providing more evidence that legal abortions are not safe for women. Manon Jones, an 18-year-old student from Caernarfon, Gwynedd experienced heavy bleeding after the abortion and eventually died.



After the abortion, Jones felt light-headed over subsequent days and began experiencing abnormal bleeding. She then became what is believed to be the fourteenth woman to have died after using the dangerous abortion drug (RU 486).



She admitted herself to Southmead Hospital in Bristol in June 2005 following the abortion but doctors were unable to save her. Four days later, Jones was dead.



Click here to read the rest of the story at LifeNews.com.



This is another RU 486 abortion drug tragedy.  It's well known that pressure was put on the FDA in America to approve it faster than normal.  It never received the testing it should have received.  Even Reno abortionist Damon Stutes thinks it's not safe.  Maybe that's because he makes more doing surgical abortions, but others think the same.  Don't expect any call to reexamine or recall the drug from abortion advocates.  I once did an interview for Channel 8 in Reno when the drug was approved.  The Planned Parenthood spokeswoman said it was a joyous occasion.  This gal and the others are casualties of abortion.  Certain women are deemed expendable for the cause.