...Abortion

Well it seems as if the recession has done a lot of things to this country. One of them has been stalling the abortion rate. Since 1990 the U.S. abortions rate has been falling every year, but apparently since 2008 the rate has been stalled at 1.21 million abortions in at a rate of 19.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44. Many families thought it would be easier to abort a child rather than raise it, kids are rather expensive you know. I am pro choice so I can understand their decision and I am okay with it. I think that also, with a big MAYBE, a shows such as "16 and Pregnant" and "Teen Mom" might have helped stall the abortion rate as well. Young girls and guys can now see how tough it is to have a baby and to raise it in what will most likely become a single parent family and they decide that is not the life for me. Of course there are those who would advocate abstinence, but in order for that to work you would have to kill their hormones and that is not happening. So do I give this move a Digit Up or Down? I am giving it a Digit Up because it shows some responsibility and maturity. Let us not assume that a lot of these women are single, some could have been married women. To quote Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'":

If You Cant Feed Your Baby (Yeah, Yeah)
Then Don't Have A Baby (Yeah, Yeah)
And Don't Think Maybe (Yeah, Yeah)
If You Can't Feed Your Baby (Yeah, Yeah)
You'll Be Always Tryin'
To Stop That Child From Cryin'
Hustlin', Stealin', Lyin'
Now Baby's Slowly Dyin'
Let us be thankful that there is not another child coming into this world being born into what could be a broken home. And for my fellow Republicans, let us be thankful that those kids are not adding to the national debt because now those women will not have to apply for WIC and or food stamps and other government assisted programs. I am giving it a Digit Up.