
Originally Posted by
Nord Jim
The real kicker to this one is that the Bush position -- of de-funding organizations that offered abortion services in addition to family planning services -- actually resulted in increases in the number of abortions in some of the countries affected -- in some cases large increases. It seems that when you deny women access to family planning services, they tend to get preggers.
This, of course, has bolstered the notion that the Bush position on abortion was about ideology, not about reducing the number of abortions.
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