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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Steve King: Taxpayers pay for millions of abortions a year
"there are millions of abortions in this country every year. Millions of them are paid for at least in part by taxpayers." Rep. Steve King
The taxpayer thing is a lie, of course.
But more to the point, there has never been a year when millions of abortions were performed in America. Never.
According to the CDC, abortions in the US peaked around 1990 at roughly 1.4 million. The current number is fairly stable at a little over a million/year. (The Guttmacher Institute numbers that anti-choicers prefer are higher, but also never reach 2 millionpeaking at 1.6 million in 1990 and currently about 1.2 million)
When someone whose world revolves around his obsession with abortion does even have the faintest idea how many abortions there are it says a lot.
Tape and transcript:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/steve-king-statutory-rape.php?ref=fpb
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Rep. Steve King: Taxpayers pay for millions of abortions a year (Original Post)
cthulu2016
Aug 2012
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. Then what a shame we missed that guy
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)3. buahaha
good one
chollybocker
(3,687 posts)2. He must be including all the schoolgirls
in playgrounds who are kidnapped and then raped and then driven across state lines to have abortions and then driven back to the park and dropped off before anyone notices.
Which sounded a lot like a confession when Steve King actually said it out loud.
Carolina
(6,960 posts)4. what an ass
but anyway, since he's so concerned with cost, I'd remind him that taxpayer dollars pay for useless wars which kill millions of born and unborn. What hypocrisy to feign concern about cost or life. I truly hate repukes.
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)5. Probably millions of rapes too. nt
rasputin1952
(83,130 posts)6. Too bad his mother wasn't one of those millions...
Steve King is a real winner he reminds me of some kind living dust.
LeftinOH
(5,357 posts)7. Rec'd for the exposure of yet another Republican lie. n/t