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To: DavesM who wrote (10594)	6/28/2004 4:59:30 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

The point of the study, however, is that the so-called "lost voters" were lost due to abortions that took place prior to 1982. "Lost voters" for purposes of the 2004 election would be due to abortions in 1986 and before. The fact that abortion rates are down currently has nothing to do with the premise of the study. Fact of the matter is Daves, children tend to mirror their parents. Children of liberal parents tend to be liberal, children of conservative parents tend to be conservative. Statistically, Democrats have more abortions than Republicans. As the article notes: • Republicans have fewer abortions than their proportion of the population, Democrats have more than their proportion of the population. Democrats account for 30% more abortions than Republicans (49% vs. 35%). • The more ideologically Democratic the voters are (self-identified liberals), the more abortions they have. The more ideologically Republican the voters are (self-identified conservatives), the fewer abortions they have. This isn't particularly surprising given the core constituencies of both political parties. But translating percentages into numbers for the purpose of evaluating their impact on politics makes the importance of these numbers real. It's one thing to quote percentages and statistics, it's quite another to look at actual human beings. For example: • There are 19,748,000 Democrats who are not with us today. (49.37 percent of 40 million). • There are 13,900,000 Republican who are not with us today. (34.75 percent of 40 million). • By comparison, then, the Democrats have lost 5,848,000 more voters than the Republicans have. Do you agree, or disagree?

To: DavesM who wrote (10594)	6/28/2004 10:38:27 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

Abortions are down because of contraception and more oral sex and hand-jobs. Dr. Drew the #1 radio sex therapist for teens has reported this. Also because of RU-486, the pill which eliminates the need for abortions. So why does the rightwing continue to try and stop kids from getting information on contraception? And why do they still want to ban RU-486? Fortunately kids are smarter than the rightwingers trying to stop them from having sex and contraception info. They still have the sex, but these days they have more oral sex before intercourse and they they do have intercourse they use condoms or other means, despite the rightwing trying to keep that information from them.