A Republican's Plea for Reality on Abortion if Hillary Wins
Perhaps Common Core Math has been employed in Sapp's article, because the numbers don't add up. He claims "4 million women got pregnant in the second year of Obama's tenure." According to the CDC, there were 6.155 million pregnancies in the United States in 2010. Of those, 1,102,700 human lives were killed via abortion. There were 1,608,600 abortions in 1990, during George H. W. Bush's second year in office; half of that would be 804,300. That's only about 300,000 off, but who's counting? There were also 6.786 million U.S. pregnancies in 1990 — 631,000 more pregnancies than in 2010.
I've also debunked the claim that abortion numbers only rise under Republican presidents and always lower under Democrat presidents here and here.
Clarity and context are vital.
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Welfare, needed for temporary assistance to address complex perpetual poverty, is not the answer to abortion. In fact, "reproductive freedom" exacerbates poverty by replacing fathers with horrible substitutes — government and abortion. Contrary to Sapp's assertions, Republicans and Democrats have both enabled the exponential increases in expenditures for entitlement programs which have been abused to the tune of billions of dollars annually. SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps), has quadrupled in spending, skyrocketing from $18 billion in 2000 to $78 billion in 2016. In 1969, when the program began, the budget was $250.50 million; that's an increase of 31,138%, while participation increased at a much lower percentage of 1,590% (from 2,878,000 enrollees in 1969 to 45,767,00 in 2015). President Obama signed the 2014 Farm Bill cutting food stamp spending by $8.7 billion, so let's not pretend this is a Republican versus The Poor issue. Welfare is big business. Truly caring for the poor is really the Church's business. Government never does it well; it hasn't since the so-called War on Poverty was launched.
I would propose, too, that what is required by liberals when they encourage seeking "common ground" is that pro-life evangelicals cede ground. Many compromises later, we quickly find that ground is more like quick sand. You can't offer people freedom from a sinking position.
And it is freedom we're talking about here. Slavery abolitionists were defeated many times. The Supreme Court ruled the Civil Rights Act of 1875 (which was basically the same text for the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968) was unconstitutional in 1883. The
