The last abortion meme we heard from the left was that “Abortions rose under Bush!” As though Bush had caused everyone to become so destitute that they had to go bump off the unborn kids to save a few bucks….

Politicians from Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Howard Dean have recently contended that abortions have increased since George W. Bush took office in 2001. This claim is false.

Glen Stassen’s fifteen minutes of fame appears to be just about over.

I doubt the MSM even heard of the study, since it was not listed in a Dem talking point

Factcheck.org, the semi-non-partisan group from the Annenberg school, also finds fault with the abortion number claims.

But my favorite “statistician” still can’t let go. In his recent letter to Factcheck.org,

Here’s what Howard Dean had to say on Meet the Press yesterday about abortion: Howard Dean on Meet the Press DR. DEAN: . . .You know that abortions have gone up 25 percent since George Bush was president? And here’s…

John Bolton Michelle Malkin (also here), Blogs for Bush (also here), Patterico, GOP Bloggers, Pardon My English Jesse Jackson: Criminal…

THE GREAT ABORTION-IS-RISING HOAX

“The deliberate killing of a human being has no place in a society that calls itself civilized and humane.” Though that is an official position of the ACLU’s, it expresses the Union’s sentiments to ward capital punishment, not abortion.

Reasoned Audacity makes us laugh and sends the cavalry over the hill by alerting us to a (relatively) new press release from the Alan Gutmacher Institute: DECADES-LONG DECLINE IN NUMBER AND RATE OF U.S. ABORTIONS CONTINUES, NEW ANALYSIS SHOWS A