Saturday, November 14, 2020

Do Abortions Go Down in Democrat Administrations?

The United States has recently gone through (still going through) a tough election season. With abortion seated center stage among the USA's cultural conflicts, that's a prime target for people's political storytelling efforts.

Among those is the following assertion:

"The Republicans bill themselves as the Pro-Life party.  But if those fascist morons who call themselves 'Pro-Life' would just look at the national abortion statistics, they'd realize abortion numbers decrease during Democrat presidents, and hardly go down at all during Republican presidents. And that's because Democrats try to increase our social services, which allows people to not choose to abort. What fools!"

Today I want to examine this narrative.  Is it true?