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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Sully- who wrote (55778)3/12/2007 4:55:37 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Reagan didn't do anything about abortion, did he?

He opposed it which doesn't mean much - the only way a President can affect abortion is through the Supreme Court justices he appoints. He tried to put justices on the SC who might overturn Roe. But some of his nominees turned out to be less conservative than he thought. So Roe wasn't overturned.

Even had Roe been overturned, the issue would simply have gone to the state legislatures and some of the largest states (NY, CA) would surely allow abortion so the overall number of abortions in the country might not go down much at all.

The sentence about Reagan is thus stupid on two levels. First, its stupid to blame preventing abortion for child beatings, rapes, neglect, etc. Second its stupid to blame a President for preventing abortions when he didn't actually succeed in reducing abortions.

This site shows the number of abortions in the US peaked about 1990 (after growing through the Reagan years), declined slightly in the first half of the 1990's, then dropped sharply in the late 1990's.
cdc.gov

Part of the decline might not be real. A few states stopped reporting abortion statistics in the late '90's - one was California, the biggest state for abortions.
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