Has anyone ever asked Senator Clinton to elaborate on her position that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare”?
Exactly how many abortions are acceptable each year? In 1996 there were 1,221,585 legal abortions in the US. In 2004 there was an estimated 46 million abortions performed worldwide each year… very rare event, need to pay close attention to actually spot one. That’s 126,000 per day, 5,250 per hour, 87 per minute, almost 1.5 per second. By the time you finish reading this paragraph, assuming you are a relatively fast reader, 20 more babies have been aborted.
So when will we know abortionis rare? And what’s the plan to get there?
Senator Clinton is big on disguising her real positions by using meaningless phrases like “safe, legal and rare” (notice rare takes 3rd place in this list). Clearly the pronouncement that Senator Clinton believes abortion should be rare is meant to dampen opposition to her potential candidacy for president from those looking for “middle ground” on the subject of abortion without actually having to state her real position that abortion should be safe, legal and readily available with a HOPE that people will “choose” to not have an abortion, thereby somehow magically leading to abortions being rare based upon some unknown target for reducing abortions below some tolerance level that will never be publicly articulated.
