{"id":185,"date":"2008-10-07T14:28:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T14:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/can-democrats-reduce-more-abor.html"},"modified":"2008-10-07T14:28:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T14:28:32","slug":"can-democrats-reduce-more-abor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/can-democrats-reduce-more-abor.html","title":{"rendered":"Can Democrats Reduce More Abortions than Republicans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beliefnet&#8217;s Steve Waldman asks the question <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/10\/can-democrats-reduce-abortion.html\">on his blog<\/a>. \u00a0He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Some Democrats are now making an unusual argument about abortion: that a Democratic administration might actually\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/10\/new-ad-obamas-approach-would-r.html\">reduce abortions more than a Republican administration?<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">On the surface, this seems preposterous. Republicans oppose abortion rights, Democrats support them. How could it possibly be that a Democratic approach would reduce abortion more?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">It&#8217;s actually quite plausible under certain circumstances &#8212; though not, I must add, under the approach Barack Obama is currently taking.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Let me start with a basic point. If you look at abortion rates since Roe v. Wade you find something startling: during Democratic administrations (pro choice administrations) the average annual abortion rate is virtually identical to that under Republican administrations. Many factors help explain that but it does force us to conclude that there&#8217;s not a simple connection between whether you have a Republican president and lower abortion rates.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/10\/can-democrats-reduce-abortion.html\">Read the whole post here&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beliefnet&#8217;s Steve Waldman asks the question on his blog. \u00a0He writes: Some Democrats are now making an unusual argument about abortion: that a Democratic administration might actually\u00a0reduce abortions more than a Republican administration? On the surface, this seems preposterous. Republicans oppose abortion rights, Democrats support them. 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Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. .An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and as College and Young Adult Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and is a repeated guest on CNN. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for Beliefnet.com. His first book, Teen Spirit: One World, Many Faiths (HCI) was released in the Fall of 2004. 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