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Jan. 25, 2005
There has been an increase in the number of abortions in eight states, and it's all President Bush's fault, says pro-abortion Senator Hillary Clinton.
Speaking at a pro-abortion rally in Washington attended by about 1,000 abortion advocates, while hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers marched to protest abortion, the wife of the president who vetoed a ban on partial-birth abortion charged that President Bush has caused an increase in abortions because he is not fully funding family planning programs.
Hillary claims family planning decreases the number of abortions.
Explaining her bizarre contention, Senator Clinton said, "... unfortunately in the last few years, while we are engaged in ideological debate instead of one that uses facts and evidence and common sense, the rate of abortion is on the rise in some states."
"In the [first] three years since President Bush took office, eight states have seen an increase in abortion rates and four saw a decrease."
On the other hand, Clinton has claimed that during her husband's administration, "we saw the rate of abortion consistently fall."
"The abortion rate fell by one-quarter between 1990 and 1995, the steepest decline since Roe was decided in 1973," Clinton told a conference of the Family Planning Advocates of New York. "The rate fell another 11 percent between 1994 and 2000."
But the statistics she cited were based on numbers that Dr. Randy O'Bannon, director of education at the National Right to Life Committee, says come from a flawed study conducted by a researcher who used faulty data to survey the rise or fall of abortions during the Bush administration.
Glen Harold Stassen, a professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, released the politically charged study just before the presidential elections, according to LifeNews.com.
LifeNews reported that Stassen claimed abortions increased in 11 of 16 states, and assumed abortions must be on the rise nationwide.
Stassen also reportedly used wrong figures in several states – sometimes using old stats and, in South Dakota, using the birth rate instead of the number of abortions.
Stassen wrongly averaged the 17.4 percent decline to say that abortions decreased at the same 1.7 percent rate every year during the '90s, LifeNews.com argued.
Since Clinton was in office during most of the 1990s, that would give him bragging rights to the abortion decrease. But Dr. O'Bannon said the rate of decline was higher in the first President Bush's years in office and slowed during the Clinton years.
"In Clinton's last year in office, the decline was not 1.7 percent, but just 0.1 percent," O'Bannon explained.
White House spokesman Ken Lasaius responded to Hillary's criticism with this:
"The president believes we ought to work together to promote a culture of life. He's made it very clear that whether we agree or disagree on the issue of abortion, that we can all work together to take practical steps to reduce the number of abortions that occur."
Clinton also wants more money for contraception, and a bigger emphasis on promoting teenage abstinence as a means of bringing about "a day when abortion is truly safe, legal and rare."
President Bush spoke by telephone to an anti-abortion rally in Washington and, according to the AP, said, "You know, we come from many different backgrounds, but what unites us is our understanding that the essence of civilization is this: The strong have a duty to protect the weak."
The president added that he would continue "seeking common ground where possible and persuading increasing numbers of our fellow citizens of the rightness of our cause. This is the path of the culture of life that we seek for our country."
There has been an increase in the number of abortions in eight states, and it's all President Bush's fault, says pro-abortion Senator Hillary Clinton.
Speaking at a pro-abortion rally in Washington attended by about 1,000 abortion advocates, while hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers marched to protest abortion, the wife of the president who vetoed a ban on partial-birth abortion charged that President Bush has caused an increase in abortions because he is not fully funding family planning programs.
Hillary claims family planning decreases the number of abortions.
Explaining her bizarre contention, Senator Clinton said, "... unfortunately in the last few years, while we are engaged in ideological debate instead of one that uses facts and evidence and common sense, the rate of abortion is on the rise in some states."
"In the [first] three years since President Bush took office, eight states have seen an increase in abortion rates and four saw a decrease."
On the other hand, Clinton has claimed that during her husband's administration, "we saw the rate of abortion consistently fall."
"The abortion rate fell by one-quarter between 1990 and 1995, the steepest decline since Roe was decided in 1973," Clinton told a conference of the Family Planning Advocates of New York. "The rate fell another 11 percent between 1994 and 2000."
But the statistics she cited were based on numbers that Dr. Randy O'Bannon, director of education at the National Right to Life Committee, says come from a flawed study conducted by a researcher who used faulty data to survey the rise or fall of abortions during the Bush administration.
Glen Harold Stassen, a professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, released the politically charged study just before the presidential elections, according to LifeNews.com.
LifeNews reported that Stassen claimed abortions increased in 11 of 16 states, and assumed abortions must be on the rise nationwide.
Stassen also reportedly used wrong figures in several states – sometimes using old stats and, in South Dakota, using the birth rate instead of the number of abortions.
Stassen wrongly averaged the 17.4 percent decline to say that abortions decreased at the same 1.7 percent rate every year during the '90s, LifeNews.com argued.
Since Clinton was in office during most of the 1990s, that would give him bragging rights to the abortion decrease. But Dr. O'Bannon said the rate of decline was higher in the first President Bush's years in office and slowed during the Clinton years.
"In Clinton's last year in office, the decline was not 1.7 percent, but just 0.1 percent," O'Bannon explained.
White House spokesman Ken Lasaius responded to Hillary's criticism with this:
"The president believes we ought to work together to promote a culture of life. He's made it very clear that whether we agree or disagree on the issue of abortion, that we can all work together to take practical steps to reduce the number of abortions that occur."
Clinton also wants more money for contraception, and a bigger emphasis on promoting teenage abstinence as a means of bringing about "a day when abortion is truly safe, legal and rare."
President Bush spoke by telephone to an anti-abortion rally in Washington and, according to the AP, said, "You know, we come from many different backgrounds, but what unites us is our understanding that the essence of civilization is this: The strong have a duty to protect the weak."
The president added that he would continue "seeking common ground where possible and persuading increasing numbers of our fellow citizens of the rightness of our cause. This is the path of the culture of life that we seek for our country."
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