Recent birth rate statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics show that, for the 3rd straight year, the teen birth rate has decreased to its lowest point in 10 years. It has decreased among all age groups. In addition, the most recent graph I could hurriedly find shows a near 33% decline since a high of nearly 30 abortions per 1,000 women in 1998.
Now if - as Rick Santorum has said - “Satan has set his sights on the United States of America" and if, as Mitt Romney has said, Obama is the most "feckless president" since Carter and has "failed America," wouldn't that mean that the data would support those statements? From all the GOP talk of "personhood" and the social ills and evils of "contraception" and "abortion" wouldn't you think that the statistics were getting worse or, if anything, not changing?
Funny how when you look at the 'actual facts,' the GOP presidential hopefuls for whom millions of Americans are tepidly voting for as I type prove to be just plain wrong.
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