It is because the overwhelming number of abortions in the United States are requested and performed because abortion is far more affordable to those who lack medical insurance , Having a child is expensive, and pre-natal care is next to nonexistent to pregnant women who lack access (insurance) to health care. Poor or no pre-natal care results in complications to pregnancies and increases the need for medical intervention like abortions.

Not violent? I suggest you look up the names:

Eric Rudolph
Michael Griffin
Jim Kopp

Army of God

And those are just a few of the anti-abortion christian fundamentalists. If you start looking at anti-gay, anti-semetic etc then you get into hategroups like the KKK and the list gets a lot longer.

I think Clinton put it well.

I might question the 80%; in Western Europe (the least ‘aborting’ part of the world), the incidence of abortion is a little over half that in the United States (and this despite the higher levels of ‘religious shrieking’ in the USA). Effective sex education, access to contraception and sexual health services (e.g. through the NHS in the UK), and the high level of empowerment of women are cited by many as the main reasons for W Europe’s relatively good performance. I strongly suspect that lower levels of social inequality are also a factor: in the UK, which by W European standards has a relatively high incidence of abortion (around 75% of that in the USA), there is greater social inequality than in W Europe as a whole.

Like Bill Clinton said , “Abortions should be safe, legal, and rare. ”
And is we did have everyone covered with medical insurance- or socialized medicine in the USA- according to studies, the number of abortions would decrease by 80%. So are Republicans Libertarians, and other conservatives really pro-life- or are they only pro-birth?

Yeah I read that finally. Can’t wait for the movie. I expect it will be growing evidence that fundamentalist Christians lie as much and are as extreme in their beliefs as Muslim fundamentalists. They just aren’t as violent about it….yet.