Abortion rate up under Bush, down under Obama

The media elite likes to accuse everybody else of promoting abortion, but this story should silence these claims. The more important point though is that this story shows that nobody should be more furious at the Republican brain trust than abortion opponents.

Statistics for 2009 - the first year of the Obama era - have just been released by the CDC. According to these numbers, America's abortion rate dropped 5% in 2009. This is the steepest drop in a decade, and it follows years of increases under Bush.

Isn't one of the Republicans' main themes their pledge to stop abortion? There's little doubt that people have voted GOP over the years based solely on this promise. Since it's clear the Republicans don't deliver on this promise, what now?

There was a video on YouTube a while back about how Mississippi votes Republican despite being the poorest state. In this clip, an impoverished man talks about how he's going to keep voting Republican because he thinks maybe it'll work someday. The same principle applies to this story: If you want abortion to be less prevalent, voting for the discredited GOP hasn't accomplished a damn thing. So why keep voting for them?