Sarah Palin had a Downs Syndrome baby last year.

Great CHOICE.

Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is having a baby resulting from a teen pregnancy.

Great CHOICE.

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Conservative single-issue Pro-Lifers waste their Presidential vote on an ineffectual abortion strategy. Not because they are necessarily wrong in their moral beliefs, but because the strategy is completely ineffective for preventing abortion.

These one-issue voters make their vote for President all about how he feels about the issue of abortion. This is completely ineffectual, and therefore quite frustrating, because the President of the United States is actually the LEAST powerful person to address the issue.

A vote for George W. Bush, for instance, equated to the prevention of not one single abortion.

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It’s such a tight rope women walk in today’s world.

Republicans claim to want to reduce the abortion rate.

Republicans claim to think it’s wrong when women who work fulltime and “abandon their children in daycare.”

Republicans claim to hate “entitlement programs” that cost them tax money.

I have to wonder why, when facing a solution to 3 of their main concerns with universal healthcare, they are not jumping on board with glee.

If women have equal access to healthcare they can prevent conception, the most effective means of drastically lowering the abortion rate.

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Some fascinating statistics about abortion were released by the Guttmacher Institute late last year. The Guttmacher Institute, both pro-choicer and pro-lifer agree, is the most reliable source of statistical information regarding abortion.
I found the most interesting facts to be these two:
* The abortion rate is the lowest its been since Roe v. Wade in 1973, with 1.21 million in 2005.
* About 60% of abortions are obtained by women who have one or more children.
Unlike teenagers who only sought 17% of abortions, these women fully understand the responsibility and the cost of parenthood and family-life.

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