Last night's debate, Bush*'s desire to "reduce the number of abortions..."

[Kazak]

'Can't remember the exact context, but I remember last night Bush* saying something about his desire to reduce the amount of abortions that are given today. How badly I wanted to slip Senator Kerry this quote from C. Everett Koop, that I've discovered in William Martin's book "With God On Our Side":

"If the pro-life people in the late 1960's and the early 1970's had been willing to compromise with the pro-choice people, we could have had an abortion law that provided for abortion only for the life of the mother, incest, rape, and defective child; that would have cut the abortions down to three percent of what they are today. But they had an all-or-nothing mentality. They wanted it all and they got nothing."

C. Everett Koop

THREE PERCENT!!! (!!!)

[enki23]

1. good thing that didn't happen

that's far, far too restrictive. this isn't *only* about the lives of mothers, it's also about the rights of women.

the best way to reduce the number of abortions--including ILLEGAL abortions--is to promote and assist women in family planning. planned parenthood is the most effective organization in the nation at doing just that.

[Goldmund]

2. Amen.

[Kazak]

3. The point is...

they HAD their chance to compromise...and passed.